WAS the “wildflower meadow” created on Culcheth’s village green worthwhile?
Members of Culcheth and Glazebury Parish Council want to know what local people think – before deciding whether or not to plant more next year.
Coun Keith Bland said: “People seem to have differing opinions. Some have come to us and said how pleased they were and how beautiful the flowers were.
“Others have said they were disappointed and did not think much of the display. A particular criticism was that the flowers were predominantly yellow, rather than a mix of colours.
“Last year we got a grant from the neighbourhood board to pay for the flowers. If we are to do it again we will have to fund it ourselves and the cost is around £1,200.
“We would really like people to let us know what they would like.”
Wildflower planting in other parts of the borough has proved a great success – even benefiting the wildlife.
But at Culcheth the flowers appear to have been trampled down in some areas leading councillors to wonder if they are only suitable for traffic islands where few people go.
Anyone with views on the subject can contact the parish council by emailing [email protected] or contacting their local councillor.
4 Comments
if you don’t plant where they have been trampled then this will become the norm, keep planting eventualy the narrow minded will accept them and ignore them. its only because they are diffrent that they stand out/
I used to live on the corner of Bellhouse Lane and Knutsford Road in Grappenhall. There was a grassy area right outside our front fenceline and to enhance the country feel, my father started planting wildflowers amongst the grass – mostly bluebells. In the end he quit because every car would stop and the people would start picking them !!!! They hadn’t the sense to realize that they were not there for their convenience !!!!!!! I wouldn’t give an accessible wild flower garden a snowball’s chance in hell of surviving.
Where this has been done along Manchester Road for the last couple of years and it all looked very nice. Providing it’s done on a fairly large scale, it wouldn’t matter if a few got trampled by the kids.
As for the cost of planting each year, I would have thought that being wild flowers they would have simply re-seed themselves?
Bill
You beat me to it Bill…. I was just about to say the same about wildflowers being wild and not needing replanting by man every year. £1200 seems a lot of money to me.
Is Culcheth Village Green the bit where the play area is… that could explain why the flowers get trampled on so probably not a good place for them. Tubs and hanging baskets would be better 🙂