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Creating urban meadows is a fast and economical way of providing a striking colour effect to both large and small areas and can be used to both enhance the appearance of a facility or disguise or provide an uplift to areas that may be of a dull or unattractive nature.
Case Study 2 Case Study 1 At Paignton Zoo in Devon, a site was left in poor condition following some recent demolition work and it was necessary to ‘make-good’ on a very limited budget. Euroflor urban flower seed provided an excellent and beautiful solution to a very tricky problem. A Euroflor Honey mix was selected and this provided outstanding displays of colour and flower from early July through till the beginning of October. Catherine Mortimer, Head Gardener at the zoo stated: “Regular visitors coming to Paignton Zoo for years said they had never seen such a beautiful flower display in the zoo since they have been visiting. I truly feel that the display created by Euroflor could compete with even of most flamboyant animals in the zoos collection.”
A little further down the coast into Cornwall, St Enodoc golf course selected Euroflor in conjunction with the renovation of one of the tees. As it was necessary to change the course of a stream and because the banks were bare, it was decided to sow some Euroflor urban meadow flower seed in order to provide some visual aesthetics to the hole. Scott Gibson the course manager commentated, “The flower seed mixtures we used were Ground Cover and Honey and the club membership was completely taken by the flower display and received many accolades through the season from visitors and garden enthusiasts. We had colour all the way into the latter part of October right up to the first frosts.”
Case Study 4 A similar effect was taking place in Essex. Lake Meadows is a popular and extremely well-visited park in the heart of the town of Billericay and has been receiving much public praise for a flower meadow sown with a Euroflor seed mix called ‘Sarah Bouquet’ which provides height, colour and a prolonged flowering period.
Case Study 3 In Doncaster, the Metropolitan Council trialed three areas of wildflower planting with a variety of Euroflor seed mixes “We were looking at ways to reduce grass cutting and the sowing of wildflower seeds was an option:” stated Gill Gillies , the Councils Assistant Director for the Environment, “The areas sown were in full bloom throughout the summer prompting an influx of compliments on social media. Comments ranged from ‘an amazing entrance into Doncaster, to an enormous benefit to an abundance of wildlife.”
“We have been overwhelmed that so many park users have commented on how amazing the flower meadow is and how much they have enjoyed it,” say the Friends of Lake Meadows, a group of volunteers and supporters work together with Basildon Council to maintain and develop the park.
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Colouring the countryside
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Creating urban meadows is a fast and economical way of providing a striking colour effect to both large and small areas and can be used to both enhance the appearance of a facility or disguise or provide an uplift to areas that may be of a dull or unattractive nature.
Case Study 2 Case Study 1 At Paignton Zoo in Devon, a site was left in poor condition following some recent demolition work and it was necessary to ‘make-good’ on a very limited budget. Euroflor urban flower seed provided an excellent and beautiful solution to a very tricky problem. A Euroflor Honey mix was selected and this provided outstanding displays of colour and flower from early July through till the beginning of October. Catherine Mortimer, Head Gardener at the zoo stated: “Regular visitors coming to Paignton Zoo for years said they had never seen such a beautiful flower display in the zoo since they have been visiting. I truly feel that the display created by Euroflor could compete with even of most flamboyant animals in the zoos collection.”
A little further down the coast into Cornwall, St Enodoc golf course selected Euroflor in conjunction with the renovation of one of the tees. As it was necessary to change the course of a stream and because the banks were bare, it was decided to sow some Euroflor urban meadow flower seed in order to provide some visual aesthetics to the hole. Scott Gibson the course manager commentated, “The flower seed mixtures we used were Ground Cover and Honey and the club membership was completely taken by the flower display and received many accolades through the season from visitors and garden enthusiasts. We had colour all the way into the latter part of October right up to the first frosts.”
Case Study 4 A similar effect was taking place in Essex. Lake Meadows is a popular and extremely well-visited park in the heart of the town of Billericay and has been receiving much public praise for a flower meadow sown with a Euroflor seed mix called ‘Sarah Bouquet’ which provides height, colour and a prolonged flowering period.
Case Study 3 In Doncaster, the Metropolitan Council trialed three areas of wildflower planting with a variety of Euroflor seed mixes “We were looking at ways to reduce grass cutting and the sowing of wildflower seeds was an option:” stated Gill Gillies , the Councils Assistant Director for the Environment, “The areas sown were in full bloom throughout the summer prompting an influx of compliments on social media. Comments ranged from ‘an amazing entrance into Doncaster, to an enormous benefit to an abundance of wildlife.”
“We have been overwhelmed that so many park users have commented on how amazing the flower meadow is and how much they have enjoyed it,” say the Friends of Lake Meadows, a group of volunteers and supporters work together with Basildon Council to maintain and develop the park.
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