Valuing The Importance of Green Spaces
Briefing Note for City of London Livery Climate Change Group Dr Heather Barrett-Mold OBE There are two major planetary emergencies: climate change and biodiversity loss. Both need urgent attention. Greenspaces can help with both as well as promoting wellbeing. It is clear from the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic that green spaces are very important […]
City of London Wild Flower Meadow
By Sherry Watson The City of London filled with a diversity of meadow planting how exciting! Beautiful wild green spaces make the city look more vibrant and alive serving as crucial habitat for many pollinators. Common pollinators such as bees, butterflies, birds, and flies are more inclined to join us in the hustle and bustle […]
Suggested Pollinator-Friendly Trees and Shrubs Suitable for City Sites
Suggested Pollinator-Friendly Trees & Shrubs Suitable For City Sites (Extracted from RHS Plants for Pollinators: rhs.org.uk/plantsforpollinators) Some herbaceous plants have been added to the autumn and winter sections in order to help fill the crucial gap for pollinators between summer and spring. Winter Crocus species crocus (winter-flowering) Eranthis hyemalis winter aconite Galanthus nivalis common snowdrop Helleborus species and hybrid hellebore(winter-flowering) × Fatshedera […]