Rethinking Parks project run by Nesta offers suggestions such as changing flowers from annuals to perennials to nick costs Public parks moving from “controlling nature” to “working with nature” could serve as models for protecting urban green spaces in times of austerity,experiments beget found.
Burnley council in Lancashire has turned over some traditional flowerbeds from annuals to perennials, changed grassy areas to hay meadows and made better use of woodland as section of a national scheme aiming to test ideas to help Britain’s 27000 parks avoid a financial precipice at a time of cuts to local budgets. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com