This project is a partnership initiative of all twelve Community Forests, to involve communities in safeguarding and creating a woodland flora for the future, in order to help preserve the fast disappearing flora of the British woodlands.
As part of the project, a sustainable source of seeds and bulbs are being produced, to enable understorey planting in newly created and existing woodlands.
This project is building on the success of the Bluebell Recovery Project, piloted in the Mersey Forest Area, by expanding the project nationwide, to incorporate all twelve Community Forests in England.
The range of species is much wider than in the pilot project, and the seeds will be collected regionally. To ensure a continued and sustainable seed source, a proportion of the collections are being grown by Landlife, a charity with 15 years experience of growing wildflowers, to produce seeds of known regional provenance.
