Impact
Providing a wonderful place to relax, colourful flower beds and open spaces are an integral part of city life in Coventry. Designed with the utmost care and attention, our diverse displays utilise a variety of planting and innovative designs to bring urban, rural, residential, corporate and community environments to life. Encouraging a positive lasting impression upon the many visitors to the city and the residents alike, our diverse communities work in partnership with campaign organisers to create a sustainable local environment using a number of initiatives and schemes to create a greener and cleaner place to live, work and visit.
To ensure maximum vibrancy and coverage, the eye catching flower beds are devotedly tended to throughout the year. The various beds are rotated seasonally using a mixture of herbaceous plants infused with bulbs, formal bedding polyanthus, pansies, geraniums, rudbeckia, petunia, marigold, bellis, alchemilla mollis, campanula rubiflora, salvia nemorosa, mixed armeria joystick, aster blaubox, veronica spicata and zinnia. The soil used is treated with fertiliser and compost which is recycled locally in-between planting.
This year, The Landscape Group have worked hard to put together an impressive themed bed in celebration of the Coventry Rambling Club’s 100th anniversary. The area of Greyfriar’s Green has been magnificently transformed with an eye catching design of the famous three spires. The image is created using a variety of vibrant summer bedding such as French marigold Durango yellow, French marigold Durango red, Begonia devil bronze red, Ageratum champion blue and pyrethrum golden moss; the bed makes for an excellent focal point to represent the city’s dedicated involvement in the Bloom campaign. Similarly, Coventry University have worked hard to combine their urban, hard landscaping with soft, wild flower beds full of vibrant herbaceous planting alongside their many key sites and buildings. Summer displays in the form of hanging baskets and planter boxes can be seen throughout the campus enriching the area for students and visitors alike.
Coventry strives to encompass a variety of fresh and sustainable planted areas, designed to add colour and character to a particular area; such as the old English roses in the Elizabethan Garden found within the walls of Ford’s hospital, the striking and innovative feature of two running men, constructed from trimmed privet located on a busy arterial route into the city and the several petunia themed baskets found lining busy shopping centre, Cathedral Lanes which brightens up a busy temporary construction area. The colourful flower bed on Trinity Street adds a touch of class for busy commuters, shoppers and tourists highlighting the improved Ironmonger Square. The bustling upper precinct boasts several vibrant planter boxes adding a welcoming splash of colour.
Both Coventry City Council and The Landscape Group have continued this year to maintain major arterial roads into the city including the London Road, Sky Blue Way and the Holyhead Road with colourful, eye catching road barrier planters filled with summer mixed colour and geraniums. Work has continued at the historic Allesley Walled Garden to plant a range of wild flowers and vegetables; wild poppies and fox gloves add colour to a lush, green space built for the community.
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To ensure maximum vibrancy and coverage, the eye catching flower beds are devotedly tended to throughout the year. The various beds are rotated seasonally using a mixture of herbaceous plants infused with bulbs, formal bedding polyanthus, pansies, geraniums, rudbeckia, petunia, marigold, bellis, alchemilla mollis, campanula rubiflora, salvia nemorosa, mixed armeria joystick, aster blaubox, veronica spicata and zinnia. The soil used is treated with fertiliser and compost which is recycled locally in-between planting.
