Description: For a multi-use green space in the former Clouston Street Playing Fields
A Big Thank You to our volunteers that prepared the soil under our woodland trees for the wildflower seed which has now been sowed. It was alot of work over quite some period and its actually something that very rarely gets done. Most wild flower meadow seed is sown in open sunny areas so this is a first for us and is very rare for others to do either. But we bought a special seed which will hopefully tolerate the shade.
Don’t expect much colour next summer though , just getting some green growth will be a success – but if one doesn’t try, one never will know what’s achievable. Not that much was actually growing under these large limes as they let in so little light. These large lime trees planted in that long line along Clouston street are the only trees humans planted on the land till North Kelvin Meadow was formed in 2008 and we started planting the orchard area plus a few other trees. We have about 500 mature trees and
What we have done is try to rewild that area by introducing native flower seed. Hopefully we don’t get too much footfall, as too much and flowers haven’t a chance to establish themselves. That’s why these large cut branches have been positioned to “nudge” people in a different direction.