Community Volunteers Enhance New Cornwall Link Road with Wildflowers

A volunteer group, identified as the Wildflower Warriors, has been hand-collecting seeds to “bring colour and life” to a major link road under construction in Cornwall. The Eden Project’s National Wildflower Centre (NWC) and these volunteers have taken on the responsibility of gathering, sowing, growing, and harvesting enough wildflower seed to plant along the four-mile route. The construction of the link road, which connects the A30 and St Austell, is in its final stage, according to the visitor attraction. To enhance biodiversity, the NWC is planting a combination of annual and perennial wildflower seeds, with the hope that these habitats will bloom for many years to come. Stephanie Knights, NWC project manager, commented: “We want to ensure the new road is as natural and biodiverse as a road can be, featuring an abundance of wildflowers that are typical of the Cornish countryside.” She added: “Producing enough seed for such a large area has been a mammoth task and we’ve seen some great teamwork involving our volunteers from the local community, local landowners and the partners involved in the building of the road.” The overarching goal of the wildflower project is to achieve verifiable biodiversity improvement over decades, in partnership with the local community.