British conservation charity Plantlife’s campaign to encourage the growth and planting of flowers on UK roadside verges has seen some councils take the message seriously.
Posting on Twitter, Bex Langley wrote about the eight miles of flowers planted along a major road in Rotherham thanks to the local council.
This is Rotherham in South Yorkshire where the Metropolitan Borough Council have planted 8 miles of wild flowers along the verges. It has saved £25k in mowing costs.
— Bex Langley (@YvonneLangley01) June 15, 2019
Surely, a must in 2020 for Taunton the Garden Town?
These photos were taken by British Beekeeping Association! pic.twitter.com/ZoDErHD2IH
The group’s road verge campaign started in 2013 in response to the mowing down of wildflowers – flowers which are not intentionally seeded or planted.
Ahead of national meadows day on Saturday, Plantlife said wildflower meadows are some of the UK’s most species-rich habitats, but are found on less than 1% of the country’s land area. More than 97% of meadows have been lost since the 1930s and the remaining fragments have poor legal protection, the charity warned.
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