New Wildflower verge sign and more plants added, May 2025
Bees and insects are incredibly important to us, as they pollinate over 300 fruit and nut trees around Hollingdean. By connecting our verges, trees, and your own green spaces or gardens, we help create a beautiful wildlife corridor. Check out Brighton & Hove Council’s sites here. You can also explore our Growing Hollingdean Map for the nearest wildflower verge near you. Thank you to the volunteers for making time for nature.
Good news for butterflies, bees and other insects in 2025!
42,601 people signed Butterfly Conservation’s open letter to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs, Steve Reed, asking for urgent action for butterflies, including implementing an immediate and permanent ban on butterfly-harming neonicotinoid pesticides, without exceptions. Yesterday’s announcement that permission will not be granted for emergency use of neonicotinoids this year – the first time in five years permission has not been granted.
The Butterfly Emergency is not over yet, however. There is not yet a permanent ban on emergency use of these harmful pesticides and, with butterflies in crisis, it is vital that the Government also declare a nature emergency and take further action to support our declining species.
And locally, it is time to Help butterflies and moths thrive by continuing to create wild spaces in Hollingdean and across the city. Would you like to help take care of our wildflower areas in the park and in community gardens and verges? Or grow more wildflowers in your own space? Come and join in some of our activities this year.
Use our Google Growing Hollingdean Map to find where the Wildflower Verges, Community Gardens / Orchards and Trees are near you.
Look out for the tiny snowdrops at Mountfields wildflower verge 2025
Wildflowers in Hollingdean, May 2024
Want to increase biodiversity in Hollingdean?
So do we- by creating wildflower corridors to help birds, bees, insects and other small creatures to thrive. The benefits will include beautiful natural flowers, fresher air and good crops from fruit and nut trees and other plants vital to our future. Chalk grassland is naturally rich in wildflowers- at its best it can be as diverse as a rainforest. Restoring it can be a massive boost to biodiversity and health wherever we live.
In 2022 we want to identify test sites for wildflowers, involving local people as well as ecologists. We aim to use a combination of techniques: planting new plug plants, sowing seeds and in some areas letting existing plants grow with minimum mowing. This way we can learn the best ways to encourage wildlife to thrive all over Hollingdean and in the rest of the city, too.
We will need plenty of hands to carry out this exciting work
Want to get involved? We would love to hear from you!
If you would like to know more about our events or help out as a volunteer please email through our contact page here. We look forward to meeting you!
We look forward to seeing you at our next event.
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