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Plan Bee Wildflower Meadow Creation

As part of the ambitious Plan Bee project (which aims to save the plight of honey bees and pollinators across the UK), the Funeralcare Co-operative Woodland Burial Sites have been awarded funding to create bee friendly wildflower corridors.

BritishFlora are managing the habitat creation of two wildflower meadows in Dorset of up to 6 acres and a 5 acre site in The

Local provenance planting is important to help restore our natural habitats and retain the genetic integrity of plant populations and is strongly recommended for projects within or near environmentally sensitive areas. Forward planning is essential when undertaking local provenance seed collection as there are seasonal constraints such as seed maturation time, finding seed donor sites and gaining collection permissions. BritishFlora are experts in the field of rare and native species re-intro

With extensive frontage along the banks of the River Thames, the grounds of the world famous Henley Management College are much used by students and visitors alike. But when wave action and signal crayfish burrowing undermined a quarter of a mile of the riverbank revetments to the point where the lawns were being undercut by deep water-filled caverns, urgent remedial action was required.

The brief to BritishFlora was to provide sustainable soft-engineered bank protection to arrest

Treatment of Contaminated Mine Water Discharge

Recent estimates have suggested that in the UK 2,500 km of streams and an area of 9,000 km2 of groundwater bodies are at risk of failure of Water Framework Directive Objectives due to mine water pollution (Jarvis & Rees 2004).

For over two decades the Loughor Estuary in South Wales, which carries SSSI status, had been polluted by high iron loadings in minewater discharged from the defunct Morlais and Bry

Naturally occurring wetlands have a natural, innate ability to remediate contaminants from water.

Over the decades BritishFlora have supplied many millions of reeds, Phragmites communis, for both habitat creation projects such as bird reserves to attract bittern, bearded tit and water rails, to name but a few. Common Reed is commonly planted to help with the cleaning of contaminated water due to it`s phytoremediation properties in constructed wetlands.

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BritishFlora helps rescue lost London river from subterranean obscurity in award winning flood prevention.

In the 1930`s, engineers at the then Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich diverted a flood-prone section of the River Quaggy through an underground culvert so that new housing could beQuaggy built. In fine weather, the river was contained. But after heavy rainfall, the Quaggy became a dangerous torrent that flooded many times- as recently as 1992 when severe damag

Royal Palace Waterways

BritishFlora designed a sustainable solution for enhanced aquatic planting in the hard engineered waterways at Hampton Court. This is part of a wider pond and waterway restoration scheme across the Park to improve biodiversity, water quality, erosion prevention and aesthetics of these formal and natural water ways across Hampton Court.

As an initial trial a 20m section of marginal planting was installed along Klon

In 2005 Edmund Nuttall/Van Oorde JV were appointed by Medway Council and the South East Development Agency to a £38m scheme to remediate the highly contaminated former industrial site at Rochester Riverside, raise land installations for new flood defences and enlarge two creeks in preparation for mixed-use development.

Planning consent was conditional on expert horticultural interventions to replace 0.7ha of salt marsh being lost during construction which, once established, w

Biodiverse Green Roof awarded ‘excellent’ BREEAM rating

Lend Lease commissioned BritishFlora to install a biodiverse greenroof on a prestigious building in the Greenwich Peninsula Regeneration Area.

BritishFlora supplied and installed over 40 species of British Native wildflowers, a diverse wildflower blanket and rockery areas to provide suitable habitat for conservation priority species. Bat boxes and black redstart boxes were installed on t

BritishFlora`s expertise in delivery of cost-effective Remediation of Urban Lake.

For years fish had been dying in the dirty, silted waters of Bracknell Mill Pond. When Bracknell Town Council, in partnership with Thames Water and the Environment Agency, resolved to transform this operational flood storage lagoon into a flagship wildlife and recreation resource, no one was more pleased than the members of the local fishing club, the Bracknell Herons.

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