Eight Streets Create Habitat for Nature This Spring
Wildlife will be thriving all over Lockleaze this spring after 55 residents from eight neighbourhoods in Lockleaze got together to create new habitat. Between them, they’ve created over 640m2 of wildflower meadow, sown hundreds of bulbs, planted trees, bushes, and herb gardens.
Did you walk down Hogarth Walk last spring? You will have seen 5 verges transformed to beautiful wildflower meadows, sown especially with kidney vetch to support the small blue butterfly. Inspired by this, five more households have ‘adopted’ their verges- it will look a treat and strengthen our butterfly corridor even more.
In March, the residents at Shackleton Heights (with doggy support) planted a huge 150 trees to grow into a wildlife hedgerow. The trees chosen were all native trees including holly, dogrose and hawthorn, which will blossom in Spring and fruit in autumn. They will support a wide variety of birds and insects.
Britain has lost 97% of it’s wildflower meadow, but studies show that even small patches of urban meadow can support the same bees and insects as natural countryside meadow can. From our own surveys, we know that the biodiversity of the areas that residents planted in 2023 has increased a lot!
Get involved
No Mow May is on the way! Put your lawnmower away, support wildlife in Lockleaze and enter a prize draw! Sign up here.
You can join in with the 2025 wildflower + grass surveys- see details below or here. Together, Lockleaze is making a difference.
