Wildflower Meadows

Since 2012, Plymouth City Council (PCC) has been committed to increasing the number of wildflower meadows throughout the city which have created a network of 120 sites for wildlife like bees, butterflies and reptiles.  Over the years PCC has gained funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Peoples Postcode Lottery and Biffa to complete a few projects to improve and increase the wildflower areas in the city. Through projects like 'Plymouth's Buzzing' and 'Urban Buzz'  volunteers helped to plant over 5,000 wild flower plug plants and 1,900 flowering bulbs to compliment the 52 kg of wildflower seed that has been sown. Since then, Plymouth has continued to maintain, extend and create more wildflower areas, which have a huge amount of benefits to us and the wildlife around us.

In 2020, COVID19 meant PCC were able to accelerate the opportunity to try something new, reducing the grass cutting in over 900 areas across the city and allowing areas to grow. This created new wildflower areas and gave us the opportunity to see the potential for new meadow areas across the city. Watch the process and find out more in the video below.

“Leaving areas of grass to grow longer and more plants to flourish in their space actually benefits people and wildlife throughout the city.”