Award - winning biodiversity experts and Accredited Supplier Wildflower Turf hopes to ' bee ' the dispute that will make the Bumblebee Conservation Trust ’s wildlife - friendly garden a winner at this year ’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show .
The educational garden , to be based in the Discovery domain of Chelsea ’s Great Pavilion , aims to highlight the value of diversity in nature and the importance of creating home ground that will protect the UK ’s 24 species of bumblebees from further decline .
This is the Bumblebee Conservation Trust ’s third year at Chelsea , having won Silver and Silver Gilt .
Designed by Bumblebee Conservation Trust , it is divided into four key areas to showcase some rarefied species of bumblebee in a range of landscapes and demonstrating the work of the Trust .
These will be a machair landscape , featuring dune grassland unique to Western Scotland and northward - west Ireland , with the addition of Red Clover and Kidney Vetch , a nifty home ground for the Yellow Bumblebee .
The second orbit will use Landscape 34 - Bio Wildflower Turf ® to make a root word for a Southern bloom - rich grassland , embedded with Ground Ivy , Vipers Bugloss and White Dead Nettle , it is " perfect " for the Shrill Carder bumblebee .
There will also be a suburban garden with a glasshouse growing tomato plants , a variety of some of the best common garden plants for bumblebees to pollinate and place for them to rest – show the spirit cycle of bumblebees . The last expanse will depict moorland with heather and bilberry plants .
After the Chelsea Flower Show , elements of the garden , such as a nature bench and plants , will be rehoused in school day to develop children about biodiversity .
Wildflower Turf Managing Director , James Hewetson - Brown said : " We ’re thrilled to frequent the Bumblebee Conservation Trust ’s Garden at Chelsea ! Bumblebees are crucial to our ecosystem , and wild flower outer space are a simple yet impactful elbow room to offer them food and protection . If more people embraced this approach , we ’d see a positive change in humblebee population . The Bumblebee Conservation Trust does fantastic work educating citizenry on creating bee - friendly gardens , and we ’re proud to brook their mission . "
Bumblebee ’s Senior Education Officer Andy Benson say : " We are enthralled to be using Wildflower Turf bright Landscape 34 - Bio Wildflower Turf ® for our display at Chelsea . Our conservation squad hoard a list of primal plant to be found in these habitats and they matched the Landscape-34 Seed Mix . Our garden will be showcasing the value of offer a diverseness of bumblebee - favorable flowers and spaces for nesting and hibernation , across a range of habitats . It was important for us to source the right plants to demonstrate sustainability at the show . Everything will occur together in the last few twenty-four hour period building the garden at Chelsea . It ’s challenging to make the dissimilar profiles of the landscapes on a modest area , measuring 8 m x 3 m , but also very rewarding . "
The Bumblebee Conservation Trust squad states that it is looking forward to talking to tens of thousands of visitors over the course of the five - Clarence Day show about the importance of biodiversity and protect the humblebee .
" That ’s why we ’re there - we desire to inhale action , " says Andy . " One of our fundamental message is to differentiate barbarian bees , such as bumblebee , from the domesticated Apis mellifera , and give people the noesis they need to help them thrive . "
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