£5 vouchers for bee friendly plants
Cookham Rise : 100 £5 vouchers on offer to encourage pollinators
Let’s Bee Friendly project founder Thomas Lee, and fellow Wild Cookham supporter, Pam Campin. Ref:132417-5
Wild Cookham is giving away £5 plant vouchers in a bid to make gardens a more attractive prospect for pollinators.
‘Let’s Bee Friendly in Cookham Rise’ is an initiative thought up by supporter of the ecology group, Thomas Lee.
“We’re hopefully putting up to 100 vouchers in people’s hands to help them buy plants that will bring 700 more bee friendly plants to the Rise – which is just a small way of helping to counter the ravages of climate change and development, and all the rest, and hopefully it will look nice too,” said Thomas.
The £11 bundle of specially selected plants have been made-up by Vernon Brown Plant Sale in Cookham Rise.
They will include two one litre plants, four
nine centimetre pots of different bee-friendly British wildflowers and one pot of springflowering bulbs.
Thomas said: “What we’re trying to do is get plants that look good, smell good, feel good, are good, and of course are great for our pollinators.”
He added: “Frankly with development and all the chemicals and everything else, our pollunators are being pushed out of existence. We’ve got to do something.”
Thomas’ project is one of about 20 Wild Cookham projects.
He said: “It’s so gratifying to me, to see the people in an area I love, who are also passionate about trying to keep it as special as it is and I think that community spirit is amazing.”
Residents can apply for the vouchers from Saturday, February 1 and the plants will be available for collection from Vernon Brown Plant Sale at the end of March.
To redeem a voucher search for the Let’s BEE Friendly Facebook page.