A campaign has been launched to bring people and communities together to sow, grow and support UK native wild flowers.
Grow Wild, a new campaign funded by the Big Lottery Fund, aims to inspire people to get together to transform unloved urban sites, gardens and windowsills into wildlife-friendly wild flower patches.
The first stage in the campaign is a call for people to nominate unloved or neglected sites, particularly in urban areas, throughout the UK for a 'Grow Wild' makeover.
The four winning sites will each receive a £100,000 to create an inspiring space using UK native plants for everyone to enjoy for years to come.
Grow Wild is led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Angela McFarlane, director of public engagement and learning at the gardens said: "We’re looking for sites that can be transformed using UK native plants to create inspiring places for people and wildlife.
"We’re currently working on an unloved city underpass which is now a thriving community market in Bristol, a site plagued with car vandalism which is being transformed in Scotland, a neglected graveyard in Selby and a disused station in Edinburgh.
"Now we want to ask for ideas on an even bigger scale, and to find sites to be given a new lease of life by young people and local communities working together to make a difference to where they live."
Nominations for Grow Wild sites can be made via the website, www.growwilduk.com, with a closing date of 9 June 2013.
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