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Growing Hollingdean volunteers planted Crocus bulbs at our last meet up on 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.

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.

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