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 >

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Wild Cherry
Wild Cherry

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Meadow Up Your Street: Chelsea Fringe Event: Islington Walk

19/05/2012 - 11:00 - 12:30

Walk on the Wild Side: Chelsea Fringe Festival

Floating Allotments in Grenville Gardens
Floating Allotments in Grenville Gardens

Join us this weekend on one of our Guided Wildflower Walks and find out more about our native wildflowers. Grenville Road in Islington and Lower Ham Road in...

May Razzle Dazzle

Green Alkanet by Anne Carter Van Roy
Green Alkanet by Anne Carter Van Roy

Wildflowers can appear as early as January but it’s not until May arrives that our senses become dazzled. We find ourselves in a May Daze when overnight it seems the razzle dazzle appears. The blue...

Meadow Up Your Street

Street Meadow photographed by Anne Carter Van Roy
Street Meadow photographed by Anne Carter Van Roy

Meadow Up Your Street is a River of Flowers campaign for 2012 to inspire people to use the space in their front gardens to create a haven of biodiversity. Walking along a street and seeing a meadow of...

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Chelsea Fringe 2012: gardening at the cutting edge alongside Chelsea’s greats

Street Meadow photographed by Anne Carter Van Roy
Street Meadow photographed by Anne Carter Van Roy

The Chelsea Flower Show, with its spectacular and transitory show gardens, has attracted criticism for being elitist. Now, it has triggered the...

Chelsea Flower Show 2012: Sarah Price's vision

Rampions: photo by Tigerente
Rampions: photo by Tigerente

For her first major Chelsea Flower Show garden, this year’s Telegraph entry, Sarah Price has challenged herself to fuse design and nature...

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