Vote for New Ferry Butterfly Park

Red Campion. Photo: Wikipedia

New Ferry Butterfly Park has applied for some funding under the "Love Wirral" Scheme to create a kaleidoscope of flowers on the railway embankment. Under this scheme Wirral residents can vote to support local projects and, unsurprisingly, the ones with the most votes get the funding. 

If you have the time and inclination the Park’s Committee would be really grateful if you could vote online for The Butterfly Park

You'll find the information on www.wirral.gov.uk/lovewirral

Voting has already started and continues until January 24th.

The Butterfly Park is under South Wirral (it doesn't matter that you don't live in that constituency) and is found under the heading "Creating a kaleidoscope of flowers (LW86)"

There are actually a lot of really interesting and worthwhile looking projects on the list. You can vote for as many as you want.

Thanks,

Paul Loughnane BEM

Hon. Secretary, New Ferry Butterfly Park Committee

Details of the Project:

At the successful New Ferry Butterfly Park it is hoped to expand the array of wildflowers for bees and butterflies along the park’s railway embankment. This November the volunteers at the park added 500 Bluebell bulbs and seek to add further colour and diversity by hosting a public event planting 150 Primrose, 50 Red Campion and 50 Greater Stitchwort plants in March/ April time. Following on from the blue haze of the established Bluebells, this project will add flashes of yellow and white in late spring and in summer a flash of red too. This will provide extra nectar sources throughout the spring and summer seasons. The embankment will be periodically coppiced to maintain the area for these perennial flowering plants of the woodland edge and to enable butterflies to use the flowers. 

The kaleidoscope of flowers will be seen by Merseyrail passengers as the trains run by the embankment, as well as by the park visitors. We also seek to screen some of our neighbours’ fences with a holly hedge which will add to the country feel of the park and to the successful future breeding of holly blue butterflies….

Love Wirral. Love New Ferry Butterfly Park.