Bracknell

The Council's landscape team and volunteers sprucing up Bracknell bus stationBracknell bus station has been given a blooming floral facelift thanks to Bracknell Forest Council, local volunteers from Bracknell Forest Garden Club, the voluntary rangers and Bracknell Forest Natural History Society.

The grass bank, next to the busy bus station, has been in need of improvement for some time. So the decision was taken by Bracknell Council’s landscape team to transform the area by planting 3,000 crocus bulbs and sowing colourful wildflower seeds.

Steve McKenna, Landscape Manager for Bracknell Forest, said: The crocus will give the area some much needed spring colour and the wildflowers will hopefully encourage bees and butterflies and will look beautiful well into the summer. There are already a number of banks around the town managed for wildflowers some of which contain very rare and beautiful plants.

The team which works on the Bracknell Flowers campaign, the town’s entry into the regional Britain in Bloom competition, is always looking for areas that can be visibly improved but this project is particularly satisfying as we are also able to help boost the borough’s biodiversity. We hope that the area is in full bloom next July, when the Britain in Bloom judges visit.”

It is also hoped this work will add to the Biodiversity Action Plan which is a Council-led plan, until 2011, aimed at encouraging organisations in the borough to increase biodiversity.

Richard Walton, Parks and Countryside Manager at the Council, said: "This project will provide a new habitat for local wildlife as part of the Bracknell Forest Biodiversity Action Plan."

Bracknell Forest Council