According to research 97% of Britain’s meadows have been lost or destroyed in the last 100 years, with industry, mono culture farming or construction to blame. Human nature and trends in landscape maintenance too had had a huge negative impact in the effort to make everything neat and short.
Sure, neat and short plays a part but our ignorance in losing these places also meant we lost 97% of habitats for our actually very rich and diverse wildlife and flora.
We are very pleased to be accredited by the Wildflower Turf as accredited installers. Their product range offering solutions for most situations we face and as a stockist gives us a vast range of scope to create you a wildflower lawn from any space.
We have also found a rare few stockists for more problematic areas such as bog land, dry river beds, extreme shade, ditch and swale seeding. We can even source aquatics to replenish lakes and water courses!
We don’t just supply the meadow turf and lay it. We think about the local environment a little further and look to build our meadows in layers from blades of grass through to specimen trees and build complete habitats to encourage wildlife back in and thrive.
Once built we also have the option for full maintenance on your meadow, completing the seasonal cuts as required and carry out any over seeding/planting for the following year.
We also can develop or assist existing meadows to strengthen in bio diversity over a longer term.
It’s also well worth mentioning too that lawns or ‘just grass’ areas converted to meadows have the potential to save land owners a small fortune in chemicals, mow time and equipment wear and tear. Wildlife meadows really do hold much better value and especially the credence they give in the ownership and the growing visitor attraction interest.
We also have the capability to enhance woodland species of flora and fauna too.
If your thinking about a Wildflower Meadow then please do ask us first to see if we can help like we have others…