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Tuesday
Sep272011

Rivers of Flowers

What is a River of Flowers?

The 'river' in River of Flowers is an evocative way of describing the planting of urban meadows in 'pollination streams' or 'green corridors' in order to help our pollinators, bees, butterflies and hoverflies, find forage in the city. It describes the flight path of the pollinators as much as it does the flow of wildflowers ... read more

Urban Meadows along Thanet Way (click on images to see your own "rivers of flowers")

 

 

Herne Bay in Bloom is planning to plant more areas under their Urban Meadow scheme next year and excitingly we will be able to sell our own seed mix to individuals by Spring 2012. watch this space for more news and we can all start creating our own "rivers of flowers" throughout the area.

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