Born to be wild
BIRD’S-FOOT trefoil, cowslip, rock-rose, scabious and orchid; plantain, goat’s beard, meadow vetchling, dropwort, yellow rattle, lady’s bedstraw and selfheal—the sheep-strewn meadow banks of the Cotswolds are the canvas soon to be painted with the palette of these native wildflowers, which will appear this summer thanks to a new Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) project, aptly named Glorious Cotswold Grasslands.
‘In two to three years, many wildflowers will have been lost’
The initiative debuted last year, funded by a £200,000 grant from the Esmée Fair-burn Foundation,
