Verge planted with non-native flowers

The Guardian newspaper has published a series of letters from readers about wildflower verges.  ‘The impact is tremendous’: readers on wildflower verges | Environment | The Guardian

However, Dr Richard Bate has tweeted “This picture isn’t a wildflower meadow it’s a monster mix of non natives. It portrays the wrong image of what wildflowers are. This may seem a pedantic and trivial point to some but these flowerbeds are largely ornamental and nowhere near as beneficial to our native invertebrates”