Christleton’s New Wildflower Meadow


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t was exciting to see groups of children from the Primary School, supervised by teachers, parents and Parish Councillors doing active conservation work on the new village flower meadow behind the Alms


Houses on Wednesday 9th April. The children were helping to plant up the meadow with wild native flower species, which will bring a welcome flash of colour to spring in future years, and enable villagers to see what our countryside looked like, back in the time when such meadows were common place all over Britain. Pickering’s Pasture near Widnes on the Liverpool side of the Mersey is the site of a similar project, in that instance where wild native flowers were planted on top of reclaimed industrial land, onto a bed of waste ash from Fiddler’s Ferry Power Station. This meadow is well worth a visit in May /June and can be found on the north side of the road between Widnes & Hale Bank. DC


page 14 St. James’ Christleton Parish Magazine


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