Hendre Lake Wildflower Planting Event Sat 19th April 2025 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

This morning's little April showers didn't stop us from helping the pollinators at Hendre Lake. Eight of our volunteers joined the Park Ranger to plant over 180 plants in our north eastern meadow at Hendre Lakes. We had a hay rake and a bramble cut back at this site back in January to start work on getting it back to a meadow, an open space with a variety of grasses and flowers.

It's a great site for nesting bumblebees with its long tufts of grass but we also want some more flowers in this area. So, to help increase the biodiversity, we have planted native wildflowers from Celtic Wildflowers.

We planted 48 Greater Birds Foot Trefoil, 20 Ragged Robin, 10 Everlasting Sweetpea Perennial, 9 Meadow Vetchling and 96 Devils Bit Scabious, a favourite of the Shrill Carder Bee.

This will help provide food for butterflies, hoverflies, beetles and bumblebees. There are already flowers on site that we can see today, including Cuckoo Flowers and Lesser Celandine. We can see the leaves of Birds foot Trefoil and Vetchling growing through, too. We can't wait to see these in bloom along with what we've planted today, all to help the pollinators

 Cuckoo Flowers Lesser Celandine