What is 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 >
Image of the Week
We’d love to see more images of spring forage especially of wild bulbs or early flowering alder, willow and hazel trees. This week's image of Alder Catkins is by Urban Bees
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Down Memory Lane
As the year begins, it’s a good time to reflect on the years before and a time perhaps to ask ourselves questions that may soon not be answerable:
1. When was the last time that...
Bluebell Bistro
Early availability of forage is vital for the survival of many pollinators especially with changes in climate. Native English Bluebells or Hyacinthoides non-scripta provide a great source of...
Mad About Meadows
Happy New Year!
In 2012, we should see the flowering of many new urban meadows in time for the Olympics. Twenty-five organisations were brought together by London in Bloom to create new wildflower meadows across London and the Mad about Meadows campaign, launched on 8 August 2011, has...
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