Life in the fast lane.....

....versus life in the gutter....

Y'know I've just been counting the different plant species growing in that gutter.....I stopped when I got to double figures......it's only about 5m long. I wonder if there's a way of estimating how long it is since I last cleared it out along the lines of Hooper's rule for dating hedges (which states that the approximate age of a hedge can be estimated by counting the number of woody species per 30 yard (27m) stretch, discounting ivy. The number of species being approximately equal to the age of the hedge in centuries....mind you by that token my garden-over-the-road dates back to the middle ages;-)).....er, maybe I should just get out there with a hoe before it starts to rain instead of looking for-and-at spurious information on the interwebs.....