Wildflower Turf

Tim Morris Building Consultancy and Design have successfully installed our Wildflower Roof Turf at Black Pasture Cottage. Matthew Timms, director of Tim Morris, has kindly sent us some images of this project for our records.
As the images below show,…

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With outdoor space being a premium and in some cases a luxury, it is no surprise that we feel compelled to pack extra value from every square metre of land by erecting sheds for extra storage, laying patios for…

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“Operation Pollinator is an international 5 year biodiversity program to boost the number of pollinating insects on commercial farms, by creating specific habitats, tailored to local conditions and native insects.”
Please follow this link to visit their website: Operation…

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We are just gearing up to do a spot of filming at our farm, which we will be available through our news letter as well as on our website. We are interested to see how much activity can be…

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What is biodiversity? – biodiversity describes the variety of life on Earth. It includes the wide variety of ecosystems and living organisms from all sources including terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and their genes.
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According to Natural England, in the last sixty years England has lost most of its species-rich semi-natural grassland.  Increasing the numbers and species of native wild flowers can go some way to restoring this valuable…

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The days are getting shorter and the nights are definitely cooler, so you might be forgiven for believing that those last flowers in your wild flower meadow or on your green roof i.e. Clover, Vetch, a few late Red…

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A few months ago we reported the leap to fame of Darren Rudge Landscape & Garden Design when they won a Gold Medal and Best in Show for their show garden…

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The British summer supplies us with numerous  RHS flower shows, which in turn make us all wish our gardens could look so glorious. We’ve found that quite a number of designers like to use our…

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What could the new JCB Academy, a school for young engineers in Staffordshire, possibly have in common with biodiversity? Why, a wild flower meadow of course.  Not many moons ago,  JCB commissioned

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