Very mild weather as autumn turns to winter is seeing an unseasonal abundance of flowers and the buzz of pollinators in the outdoor gardens at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
Around 80 hardy fundraisers bedded down in the cold night air at the Eden Project last night (Thursday November 10) to raise vital cash for homelessness charities.
Military veterans from the Defence Gardens Scheme (DGS) have been planting hundreds of devil’s-bit scabious (Succisa pratensis) on the Eden Project’s Outer Estate in a bid to tackle habitat loss for the threatened marsh fritillary butterfly (Euphydryas aurinia).
The Eden Project brought students, teachers and members of the local community together at Morgan Academy in Dundee yesterday (Wednesday) for a seed harvest in its wildflower meadow.