We’ve added benches to our planters, so now you can take a seat whilst enjoying the bee-friendly plants and watching pollinators in action. These benches are on our planters at Reading Railway Station in Berkshire. If you’re waiting on a train or bus to Heathrow Airport, why not check them out and take a load …
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We worked with Network Rail, Food4Familes and Launchpad135 to install these planters with pews at Reading Railway Station, Berkshire. They accompany the work we did at the station to mark the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, where, supported by station staff and local volunteers, we replanted pre-existing brick planters with bee-friendly plants in red, white and …
Look after the forest and the forest will look after you – those are the wise words illustrated by BFT team member Lesley Hipple on the wall of the Bee Friendly Trust wildlife garden and apiary at Coram’s Fields in London.
The platforms are very narrow at Canons Park Underground Station in London, but we were able to squeeze in two slimline planters, one on each side. Thanks to Transport for London.
We joined forces with Great Northern Rail to create this unique creature feature and bug hotel at Gordon Hill Railway Station in London. Featuring old parquet flooring from the station plus a forgotten artwork salvaged from Barbican Railway Station, also in London, it’s proof that anything can be transformed into a welcome home for wildlife.
After discussions with local residents, we are building two Mediterranean beds on two tired patched of grass outside the station. Olive trees, rosemary and lavender make up the planting.
A large brick built planter that is part of the original design at the station was lovingly looked after for years by one of the station staff. But with their retirement it had been sadly neglected. We stepped in and refurbished the planting and also transformed an abandoned grit box into a second, small planter.
A huge pop up garden on an abandoned platform at Barbican station, had itself been abandoned. We came in and cleared away broken planters, removed rogue buddleia, refashioned the remaining thirty planters into clusters interspersed with some old terracotta pots that we found elsewhere on the station. We have planted up with rosemary and grasses …
Live music from the likes of Karen Harding, live art installations from up-and-coming UK artists, giveaways and, of course, Magners cider; it can only mean one thing: their popular series of Secret Cider Garden gigs are back. We’re excited to have joined forces with Magners Irish Cider as the charity partner for their 2023 series …
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A fantastic weekend was had by all at the National Trust’s Attingham Park in Shropshire, with a Bank Holiday of bee-friendly activities in our popular BeeDome. It was the BeeDome’s first outing for a couple of years but activities, which included making bee bunting, bee pebble painting, “beekeeping”, and Waggle Dancing, proved it hadn’t lost …
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