Wildflower Meadows

Do we need to worry how we use the term wildflower meadow?

This was the question posed by Miles King, well-respected Conservation Director of the Grasslands Trust. As with the majority of things in life it depends upon your point of…

CPRE Hampshire Countryside Awards 2012 was hosted on Friday 28th September. We were announced as a finalist so we had our fingers crossed!

 
Launched in 2007, The Countryside Awards scheme…

Every month we will post a little blog containing a brief description accompanied by a little bit of ecology, on a specific wildflower! It is our pledge to promote all varieties of wildflowers!

So which flower will it be this month? Introducing…

…something beginning with ‘W’.
Wildflower Turf to be precise! In July we were approached by Paul Hermon from Green & Gorgeous who’s brief was to supply and install a mature meadow for a site in Somerset, which needed to be…

We have surely all by now, come across the statistic that wildflower meadows have declined by 97% since the Second World War, and that the majority of the ancient hay meadows which have survived are in desperately poor condition. Something…

What are grasslands exactly…..

Wildlife-rich grasslands were at the heart of the English landscape. It has been suggested that they have been in existence for over 6000 years, created as a result of human activity. This means that although they are…

Has the BBC comes up trumps again with their new gardening program Flowerpot gang? The program focuses on a team travelling the country where they transform neglected plots of land into life-changing spaces.
The program does seem to have attracted mixed…

We received a lovely email from one of our customers recently telling us that she was really happy with the wildflower meadow she has now incorporated into her garden scheme by using our Wildflower Turf.

200m² of Wildflower Turf will not only…

Paul Hermon from the landscape design company Green & Gorgeous recently ordered some Wildflower Turf. He has kindly sent us some pictures saying that ‘the meadow is growing wonderfully well and the early flowers are already a riot of…

“Sustainable development satisfies the needs of the present generation without compromising the chance for future generations to satisfy theirs”
Brundtland Report (1987)
In 1992 at the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), (Rio de Janeiro) most of the world’s nations…