Pollinator Friendly Landscape Design

Two species of bumblebees are already extinct, and two are on the edge.  That’s why Ground Control is proud to collaborate with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust on a number of pioneering joint projects that aim to create, maintain, and sustain optimal sites in which Bumblebees can thrive.

This includes, the Bee the Change Garden RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023, Pinner Park School biodiversity regeneration project, and a formal pollinator collaboration at the Wildfell Centre for Environmental Recovery, our 296-acre nature-recovery laboratory in North Essex.

Biodiversity regeneration at Pinner Park School

At Pinner Park School, we’re helping teachers and children to invite nature into the school grounds. Collaborating with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, to create biodiverse habitats for pollinators and inspire the next generation.

The biodiversity regeneration project kicked off in March 2022 with The Big Dig.  800 school children were joined by teachers and volunteers from Ground Control to plant a micro forest of native trees, hedgerows, fruit trees and a wildflower meadow to provide essential nesting and hibernation sites for Bumblebees.

Bee the Change Garden

Habitat loss and fragmentation are threatening the survival of Bumblebees, so landscape design projects that incorporate Bumblebee-friendly planting have never been more important.

The Bee the Change Garden showcases a range of adaptive design ideas and demonstrate how an accumulation of small and simple changes can transform a managed external space with very little value to Bumblebees into a Bumblebee haven.

Discover more about our "Our Bee the Change Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show"

Pollinator-friendly planting collaboration

At the Wildfell Centre for Environmental Recovery – Ground Control’s 296-acre nature recovery laboratory near Braintree, Essex – we’re engaged in an innovative collaboration with Plantlife, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and the Bumblebee Conversation Trust.   Together, we’re delivering a vision that puts plants, fungi and pollinators at the heart of landscape design and adaptive management. This 'super group' will deliver surveys and scientific research. It will also be a mechanism through which we can capture valuable input which benefits clients through habitat creation and management proposals.

Discover 'Nature Recovery in Action' at the Wildfell Centre for Wildlife Recovery