Laurence Edwards shows how Chirk Castle transformed a plain grass field into a wildflower meadow over five to six years. Yellow rattle, a parasitic plant, suppresses grass and lets fifty different flowering species thrive, creating habitat for pollinators.
So Chirk Castle have planted 15 acres of wildflower meadow, and you can walk through them. They've cut out the paths like this, and as you look out over here, it's just all wildflower meadow. It is really fantastic. They've done such a good job. It's taken them about 5 or 6 years to do it, and they say the key to the success is this plant here, which is yellow rattle. And the yellow rattle eliminates the grass or helps to reduce the amount of grass that's growing through. This was 100% ryegrass meadow before, single species, just ryegrass, and now it contains up to 50 different species. Really impressed with what they're doing, helping all pollinator species.
