Co-founder & operations director, Urban Bees | Rooftop rewilder | Best-selling author | Journalist | Speaker | Educator | APPG Bees and Pollinators advisor
Rewilding in the City on the roof of Bow Bells House is going well. It's wonderful to see a mixture of native wild flowers that have blown in, including these yellow dandelion-like blooms, Red dead-nettles and Forget-me-nots, all thriving in among the ornamentals - Kniphofia (Red hot pokers) that have self seeded everywhere (I'm digging them up or else they'd take over) , Verbena bonariensis, and the fantastic white daises of Erigeron karvinskianus (Mexican fleabane). It looks as if Rose campion (Lychnis coronoria) is back in force, after I pulled lots up two years ago when it threatened to overrun, and the Lamb's ear I planted last year is standing tall (Stachys byzantina). I'm lucky that I can experiment on this 8th floor roof, and I don't have to be too tidy, as it's not accessible to the tenants. So it's all about feeding a variety of wild bee species and other pollinators. I think any that visit this spring and summer are going to have a feast. I've even sneaked in some alkanet as it flowers from Mach - July. #biodiversity #rewilding #greenroofs #pollinators
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