It is hard to believe that under this carpet of stunning purple orchids lies a landfill site.
His desire to spruce up neglected plots of land came following a trip to Holland in 1981, where he was taught the skill of sowing hay to produce orchids. And back home, the former professor of plant ecology at Wolverhampton University set about sprucing up pieces of land which had been left to rot as eyesores.
After talks with Wolverhampton City Council’s landscape architect Peter Millett, the pair decided that a former landfill site in Kitchen Lane, Wednesfield, would be the perfect spot to create a stunning meadow.
SOURCE: Express & Star – Wild orchids taking hold in city .
