Join us for Wildflower Verge Cutting & Planting 2025

Join us for Wildflower Verge Cutting & Planting September 2025, Jon Growing Hollingdean volunteers.
Mountfields Wildflower Verge

Saturday 27 September, Mountfields Triangle, 10am-12pm, Rain or Shine!

Join the Growing Hollingdean volunteers for our annual wildflower meadow cutting on Saturday 27th September 2025. We’ll meet at 10am at the Growing Hollingdean shed on the corner of Brentwood Road and Lynchet Close to collect equipment (or bring your own), before walking down to the wildflower triangle behind the 50 bus stop at Mountfields and The Crestway (in pink). Together we’ll be cutting the meadow with shears and scythes, and planting wildflower plants and bulbs using trowels and gloves. Come along, lend a hand, and help care for our beautiful community wildflower meadow!

Free Event Hollingdean, Brighton this September 2025

The wildflowers attract pollinators such as bees, flies, moths and flower beetles. Other insects and spiders soon follow, as well as larger predators…” Says Natural History Museum. These wildflowers provide vital food and habitat for Hollingdean’s swifts, buzzards, blackbirds, sparrows and more—so come along, lend a hand, and see what insects you can spot while helping care for our community meadow!

Join us for Wildflower Verge Cutting & Planting September 2025, Growing Hollingdean volunteers.

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Hollingdean’s Tree Guardians will meet next on Sunday 5th January 2025 at the Lynchet Close shed, 10am-12noon. Come and join in?

Join our Tree Guardians for some fresh air, light tree maintenance and a smile. Everyone is welcome, training is available too!

Growing Hollingdean volunteers planted Crocus bulbs at our last meet up on 1st December 2024

Growing Hollingdean volunteers seen planting 1st December 2024

Tree Guardian volunteers got together to plant four thousand crocus bulbs in the wild flower patch bank in Hollingdean Park on Sunday 1st December 2024. It was a very grey soggy morning but this didn’t stop the hardy 13 (+ 2 kids) in full weather outfits from having a giggle. We lifted the turf to drop in the crocus bulbs . Later that morning we scraped and raked the ground before sowing yellow rattle seed. Yellow rattle is parasitical on the grass roots and needs to be planted into exposed earth amongst grass roots. It is a wildflower that thins the grass and other wildflowers then also have a chance to flourish on a grassy bank.

Growing Hollingdean volunteers seen planting 1st December 2024

These tiny little bulbs will hopefully make an amazing display in February, make sure you take time to wander past. Also pop up to the bog garden to see another four thousand crocus planted on the Hollingbury Hawks football pitch bank.

Growing Hollingdean volunteers seen planting 1st December 2024

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