How long will Margery Street estate’s host of golden daffodils survive?

Published: 1st April, 2011

• AT present the Margery Street estate in Clerkenwell has a pleasant golden glow from the mass of daffodils planted by tenants.

At a site meeting with contractors employed by Islington Council, it was stated that they would hoe the flower beds to remove weeds. If the flower beds are hoed all the dormant daffodil bulbs would be sliced up and destroyed.

Last summer when colourful flowers were in full bloom on the estate, a council contractor employee vandalised them by using a grass strimmer to cut them down. After complaining to the council, a Homes for Islington employee visited the devastated flower beds and photographed the damaged flowers lying on the ground. 

Two weeks later the contractors returned and cut down all the flowers in another bed. The council now refuses to discuss this vandalism with myself and refuses to disclose details of the current ground maintenance contract on the estate.
Concerned Tenant
Name and address supplied