Ealing parks will be putting down this year’s bird seed and wild flower mixes in the big meadow in the park, shown below.
The area is currently being prepared. Since last year when it was last done, an abundance of docks, grasses and cornflowers have taken over, and these were mowed yesterday. Today the mowings have been prepared for collection next week.
The final stage, the rotavating and sowing will not happen until sufficient rain is forecast. Since this does not look likely in the immediate future, the current plan is to wait until the autumn to do this.
I don’t yet know the composition of the seed mix that will be put down, except that there is twice as much as last year!