The Tower’s superbloom is the first stage of a legacy project that will turn the moat permanently into the biggest resource for bees and other pollinators in central London.Īn annual mix created by Nigel Dunnett for the 2012 London Olympic games © Guppyimages/Ĭoreopsis tinctoria was grown at the Tower of London as part of a superbloom trial in the moat last summer © Historic Royal Palaces More than 20mn seeds were sown earlier this spring to create the reverie, which will evolve as the flowers come to life until late September. This June, to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the landmark’s 13th-century moat will ignite with colour, as Dunnett and landscape architects Grant Associates transform a 14,000sq m area into flower fields. Nigel Dunnett, the botanist and University of Sheffield professor behind the 2012 Olympic Park meadows and the concept of the “pictorial meadow”, was so inspired by the spectacle that he decided to create a superbloom 5,000 miles away at the Tower of London. In spring 2019, after an unusually wet winter, the region’s mountains and deserts erupted with wildflower meadows of orange California poppies, violet Phacelia and vivid blue Chia sage – a surreal display of nature so vast and vivid it was visible from space. The superbloom of southern California was the ultimate botanical hit for plant geeks and meadow fanatics.
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