In cooperation with English Heritage, the Environment Trust is helping to enlarge the areas of wildflower meadow around the edges of the sports pitches at Marble Hill Park.
Volunteers get busy removing turf in preparation for sowing wildflower seed, with some of this summer's flowers still in bloom.
Creating a wildflower meadow is harder than you might think, and requires a lot of muscle power.
Drainage is increased, and fertility reduced to assist seed germination, by adding a layer of sand.
As the seed is sown, volunteers and English Heritage rangers, tread the seeds in to the ground.
Mycena acicula (Orange bonnet) appearing through the Marble Hill grass.
2012 Wildflower Meadow in June 2013
Oxeye daisies
Cornflower.
Yellow-rattle.
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