After taking on the David Bellamy Blooming Marvellous "Home Sweet Home" Challenge this year, we have been very busy around the park maintaining existing habitats; installing throughout the park bird boxes; bat boxes; more bug and bee hotels; feeding stations for birds, squirrels, etc; hedgehog houses; and insect stacks all to help as many animals across our park thrive and provide an area of shelter.
Throughout this season so far we have:
- Limited the cutting of long grass areas to maintain and encourage grassland habitats and bee nesting.
- Greenspaces have been managed in an environmentally friendly way with no fertiliser being used.
- New planter tubs and hanging baskets have been installed on the front and around our Reception building to encourage pollination.
- Bird and bat boxes have been installed around the park.
- Bug and bee hotels have been installed around the park.
- Hedgehog houses have been installed in the park.
- Bird feeding stations have been installed around the park.
- Customers on our park have created their own insect stacks, bird feeding stations, and bug hotels.
- Our wildflower rockery has been reseeded and replanted for this year.
- Our buddleia bank at the side of Reception will be left to flower naturally for as long as possible this year to increase the pollination time.
- We have planted 60 new trees throughout the park.
