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    Colouring in the city

    Aug 09, 2022 4 minutes

    IN BRIEF

    What City development scheme opening up areas of planting and new public green spaces.

    Where Sheffield city centre.

    Size 1.3km of new footpaths and cycleways.

    Soil A mix of local recycled material to create low-fertility and be free draining.

    Climate Prone to flooding.

    Hardiness zone USDA 8.

    These planting schemes are positively gardenesque in their richness, diversity and impact

    The urban planting in Sheffield city centre is astonishing. Everywhere you look there are beautiful examples of just how much can be achieved with a robust palette of well-chosen plants, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the Castlegate area of the city where the succinctly named Grey to Green project is helping to transform rundown

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