The conservation initiative to provide food for wildlife is now in full bloom. Called Project Sunflower, and now in its second year, it was set up in a two-acre field belonging to farmer Gavin Nicolle that was previously used for growing hay. It has been sown with a special mixture of plants to provide nectar through the summer and seeds through the autumn and winter. The sunflowers are the most obvious plants but there is also a variety of other seed-producing plants growing amongst them that will ripen at different times. There is a path cut all the way around the field so that visitors can enjoy the sunflowers but please don’t pick them. The field is just north of the Island Hall down a short lane on the other side of the road. Look out for the signs.

Pictures by Sue Daly

Sunflowers, quinoa, chicory & phacelia