A partnership of the 12 Community Forests to involve communities safeguarding and creating a woodland flora for the future. This will help to preserve the fast disappearing flora of British woodlands. A sustainable source of seed and bulbs will be produced to enable understory planting in newly created and existing woodlands.
The project seeks to build on the success of the Bluebell Recovery Project piloted in the Mersey Forest Area. It will do this by expanding the project nationwide to incorporate all 12 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 will be grown by Landlife, a charity with 15 years' experience of growing wildflowers to produce seed of known regional provenance.