Lockleaze residents create 1381 square meters of wildflower meadow on their streets!

Wildflower meadows are vanishingly rare these days, but they are so important for our wildlife - supporting our bees, butterflies and lots of other insects, which in turn support our birds, bats, and hedgehogs!

From October to April, residents of Lockleaze have got together to make a difference for wildlife making meadow patches on their greens, verges, and other public spaces. At the moment, they are newly sown with tiny plants at the moment, but with luck, they will grow, and bloom into wonderfully beautiful flowers, as well as helping the insects. An incredible 1371m of wildflower meadow has been made:

Cameron Centre: long grass with bulbs: 35m2

Stanfield Close: long grass with bulbs 35m2, Grass growing long with wildflower plug plants 59m2

Landseer Avenue: long grass with bulbs 54m2, 2 wildflower patches - turned over and sown 12m2

Blake Road Corner: 93m2 sown wildflowers

Thornycroft Close: 246m2 long grass with bulbs, turf cut and sown with wild flowers: 153m2

Lockleaze Sports Centre: wetland wildflower plugs planted into boggy long grass

Hogarth walk Wild verges: 5 small verges turned over, and sown with wildflowers and kidney vetch plug plants: 8m2

On Hogarth walk, Landseer Avenue, and Thornycroft Close, we planted kidney vetch plug plants to help the small blue butterfly which is known to be nearby but not seen in Lockleaze.

We sowed: Yarrow, Agrimony, Betony, Common Knapweed, Meadowsweet, Lady’s Bedstraw, Meadow Crane’s-bill, Meadow Vetch, Oxeye Daisy, Bird’s-foot Trefoil, Musk Mallow, Ribwort Plantain, Cowslip, Selfheal, Meadow Buttercup, Yellow Rattle, Common Sorrel, Great Burnet, Ragged Robin, Tufted Vetch, Kidney Vetch, Common Bent, Sweet Vernal-grass, Quaking Grass, Crested Dogstail, Red Fescue, Meadow Foxtail, and Meadow Fescue