Flatford Wildlife Garden (RSPB)

By garden designers Catherine Heatherington MSGD and Alex Johnson MSGD. Short-listed in the Society of Garden Designers Awards 2012 in the  Public and Communal Gardens category.

Flatford Wildlife Garden (RSPB) By garden designers Catherine Heatherington MSGD and Alex Johnson MSGD. Short-listed in the Society of Garden Designers Awards 2012 in the  Public and Communal Gardens category.
 
The brief was to develop a wildlife garden to provide the RSPB with an opportunity to communicate with the many visitors that already visit Flatford Mill. It will provide a breathing space from the crowds and allow visitors to be inspired by a wildlife garden that, through good design and interpretation, provokes them to improve their own outdoor spaces for wildlife.  It will provide a showcase for the RSPB’s Homes for Wildlife programme. The sloping site includes traditional hedging, wetland, woodland and flowering plants.

Plant list 

Stachys byzantina
Ajuga reptans “Atropurpureum”
Centranthus ruber
Centranthus ruber “Albus”
Vinca minor 
Hesperis matronalis
Festuca mairei
Nepeta “Walker’s Low”
Campanula 'Resholt’s Variety'  
Miscanthus “China”
Hebe Margaret
Ceratostigma willmottianum
Sedum telephium “Matrona”
 
A lot of self-sown campion!
Designed by Catherine Heatherington

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