Boost for biodiversity as Severn Trent helps plant wildflower-rich road verge
Severn Trent has teamed up with a local community group in the Bomere Heath area, to re-seed road verges to create wildflower-rich nature corridors.
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Severn Trent has teamed up with a local community group in the Bomere Heath area, to re-seed road verges to create wildflower-rich nature corridors.
Severn Trent has launched its support for an initiative in Bomere Heath and surrounding villages to boost biodiversity by creating wildflower-rich roadside verges.
A GROUP of conservation volunteers in south Shropshire is calling for roadside verges to be left uncut to benefit plants and wildlife. Restoring Shropshire’s Verges Project (RSVP) is working with Shropshire Council, the Stepping Stones Project and the National Trust to protect verges in south Shropshire, leaving them to grow wild until late summer. To raise awareness and help people understand why these verges are being left to grow, volunteers have put up signs that say: ‘Don’t mow, let it grow. These verges are being managed for wildlife.’ South Shropshire has some of the be...