Pop-up garden to inspire residents to help wildlife
A POP-UP garden will appear in Cardiff’s largest park next week to inspire city residents to turn their own back yards into homes for wildlife.
Garden designer Shani Lawrence will produce the small plot in Bute Park which will be open to visitors for two weeks from Monday.
It will feature a pond, a living lawn, a green roof and plenty of habitats for living creatures.
It is hoped the temporary garden will inspire visitors to improve their own gardens and make them more hospitable for wildlife.
The initiative is part of a Wildlife Trust project in south and west Wales which encourages people to consider their own green spaces as habitats.
The charity says that gardens take up more space in the UK than all nature reserves put together.
Rose Revera, The Wildlife Trust’s people and wildlife officer who is running the My Wild Cardiff project, said: “Anything that people can do in their gardens to create more habitat for wildlife in the area will help species such as hedgehogs, bumblebees, butterflies and birds.
“Creating a network of green areas will strengthen the populations that are seriously struggling, rather than them being confined to a single green area with limited resources.
“We hope that our pop-up wildlife garden will educate and inspire people to help their wild neighbours.”
The garden will be open to visitors from Monday until Sunday, August 20 between 10.30am and 6pm.
It can be found next to the Summerhouse Café in Bute Park.