[Tagging] Green areas that are not parks (revisited)

[Chris Hill]

Liz wrote:
> On Sat, 15 May 2010, Chris Hill wrote:
>   
>> You have animals grazing? Or perhaps you cut it for hay or silage? If 
>> not then it's just an unkempt garden, just letting the grass grow 
>> doesn't make it a meadow, except perhaps in pretentious gardening 
>> programmes :)
>>
>>     
> I guess you assumed I lived in a city area. I don't. 
> So if you leave your garden alone it reverts to meadow.
> I am no longer supporting a plant monoculture but a variety of plants which 
> vary with the seasons. 
> 10 years of drought give a low likelihood of feeding any animal from what is 
> grown there.
>   
No I didn't assume anything, except that what you have is land attached 
to a house. That is a garden. Green or not, maintained or not. Decked, 
paved or grassed, cultivated or not.  A meadow is agricultural land.

Cheers, Chris