Wildflowers
We have committed to sowing multiple wildflower areas across the borough to both provide colour and to support insects and pollinators. The wildflower seeds that we use contains flowers species that are not native to the UK. Using non-native species extends the season that the flowers are in bloom and provides additional habitat and food for insects and pollinators.
The visual impact of the flower mixtures is one of the benefits you can experience, of equal importance is the commitment to the environmental responsibility:
- helps reduce our carbon footprint
- introduces more ecological practices
- adds value to the landscape and natural spaces
- brings wildlife back into the town.
Wildflowers need to be left until they have died before they are cut. This will usually be done at the end of September or early October, giving the wildflowers the best opportunity to come back the following year
As well as brightening up the borough, our urban wildflower meadows are vital for our ecosystem. They provide pollinators, such as bees and butterflies and other insects, with food shelter and places to breed.
Locations of the mini meadows, wildflower bulbs, established perennial meadows and wildlife corridors include:
Mini Meadows
Bamber Bridge, Walton-Le-Dale, and Higher Walton
- Brownedge Road
- Withy Grove Park- Brindle Rd entrance
- Withy Grove Park -Sergent Street entrance - NEW
- Gregson Lane Playing Field
- King George V Higher Walton
- Holland House estate
- Carrwood Road/Millwood Road opposite The Hunters Pub
- along verge on Carrwood Way
- roundabout at junction of Carrwood Road, Carrwood Way and Valley View
- Bellis Way at rear of playground
- Hennel Lane banking
- outside the Hob Inn at Bamber Bridge
- corner of Cinnamon Hill Drive North and Chatsworth Way
- Claytongate Drive Walton-le-Dale.
Leyland and Farington
- Moss Side Village Green
- Middlefield Park
- St Johns Green
- Broadfield Drive Opposite St Mary's Church
- tractor roundabout
- Dalehead Road Green
- Farington Park
- Leyland Way
- in front of Mini Golf at Worden
- in front of Bobby the horse
- field at end of Cowling Way
- Western Drive
- Bent Lane
- Bent Lane/Turpin Green Lane Junction - right hand side
- field next to Barnhey/Leyland Lane
- Leadale Green
- Buckshaw Village - near SR sign on Central Ave
- Buckshaw Village - roundabout on Central Ave
- Tank Roundabout
Penwortham
- Kingsfold Drive/ Hawksbury Drive end
- Hawksbury Drive opposite shops
- Pope Lane Park
- triangle on Cop Lane next to the cycle path through to HGP
- Queensway
- Marshalls Brow
- Bank Top Road playground
Western Parishes
- Much Hoole Playing Field, Northern Avenue
- Shirley Lane, Longton
- Hutton Playing Field wildlife area (perennial)
- Lindle Lane/Lindle Close, Hutton
- front of hedge from Hutton to Longton
- The Grove Longton
- Gill Lane Walmer Bridge/junction of bypass
- Dob Lane Walmer Bridge/junction of bypass
Lostock Hall
- Todd Lane South, before the railway bridge
- patch of land at junction of Wateringpool Lane and Mercer Road
- the roundabout at The Cawsey and Leyland Road