R4 now
\\Wild flowers are being outcompeted by ‘thug’ plants on our roadside verges, a study by the charity Plantlife has found.
Pollution from cars and poor management practices by local councils has meant that nitrogen-loving plants outcompete wildflowers.
Dr Trevor Dines explains to Adam Rutherford what actions can be taken to help our verges regain their natural biodiversity.//
Is it important that nitigen guzzlers as doing well.
They quote nettles
But I know they need special conditions - wet and not too much shade, nettle must be dependent on more than nitrogen .
He just said council cut verves too early
.. See you clear ground then if wet nettles will grow fast unless other species shade them.
Leaving clippings is fertilizing AND preventing many other seeds getting to ground.
So isn't nitigen from exhausts

Item just ended, pollution had not even been mentioned.