COPPLESTONE Recreation Association has adopted a plan to transform the long slope that runs down from the football field to the car park into a Wildflower Bank and pollinator haven. 

The grass hasn’t been mown since April, and great clumps of wildflowers have grown up through it: yarrow, self-heal, clover, oxeye daisies, meadow cranesbill, hawksbeard and Fox and cubs. 

Local volunteers are “managing” the bank by uprooting rough docks, thistles and ragwort to ensure they don’t take over, and filling the gaps with extra wildflower plugs grown by another volunteer, scabious, ladies’ bedstraw and extra cranesbill and self-heal.

There will be no more mowing until September.