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GWR commissioned four self-watering planters for its busy railway station in Newbury. Having canopies, the self-watering design of these planters will ensure the bee-friendly plants (hebe, lavender, rosemary, salvia, thyme and lemon balm) will continue to flourish year-round.

We installed two self-watering planters on the concourse outside Reading Green Park Railway Station, in March 2024. These planters add to the bee-friendly planting already present throughout this new development and station, and add to GWR’s ever-expanding network of platform-based pollinator habitats.

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 …

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Working with GWR, we installed two of our standard planters at Midgham Railway Station in Berkshire, in spring 2022. They may look small now, but the lavender and rosemary shrubs, in particular, will be a welcome forage spot for pollinators every summer.

The thin strips of neglected space at Thatcham Railway Station weren’t a challenge for our team, who simply modified our standard planters to create these streamlined alternatives. Working in partnership with GWR, we installed two bee-friendly planters at the station in the spring of 2022.

The banks at the entrance to Pangbourne Railway Station were overgrown with brambles when our team arrived. With support from GWR, we cleared away the overgrowth and planted bee-friendly shrubs and flowers in what are the first stages of creating a welcoming habitat for all wildlife at the station.

Working with GWR, we transformed what was an overgrown railway station into a wildlife haven of floral planters, complete with bug hotels and bird boxes; and expanses of wildflower meadow. The wildflower areas may look a little wild – but they’re meant to. We cut these areas back twice a year (in autumn and spring) …

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