Going about my daily travels often leads me to little things that make me believe that we stand a chance of clearing up a lot of environmental ills if we just let nature do as she does best.

I say this because I walked past a garden bed that is uninspiring and really should be full of plants all sorts. Instead, it is very bare although it does have a couple of banksias, an acacia, a callistemon and a small strelitzia to break up the bare patches.

When looking at this garden bed this morning, I noticed a stump from a tree that had been chopped down for reasons I’m unaware of (it may have been unsafe, for example). A root that was clearly attached to this half rotted stump had a shoot growing out of it. This shoot is a banksia and, while small it did make me smile. The remains of the tree want to survive and grow and do as these trees do.

Also in this same garden bed, there were also many banksia seedlings. They won’t all survive, of course, but the fact that there tiny plants growing means nature can and should be allowed to carry on as she has.

In a garden bed, we should keep things a bit tidier, but if a plant is happy in that area and it is not a problem weed or likely to cause damage to infrastructure, cars or people then why not let them be?

I just love seeing plants growing gone nothing and really do think we should allow more of this to happen.