From lawn to wildflower meadow

Trinity College Dublin has begun transforming its manicured front lawns on College Green into a bee-friendly wildflower meadow after the public voted in favour of it. An online poll was held in February and attracted almost 14,000 votes, with around 90% (12,496) voting in favour of the conversion to native Irish wildflower meadows. The meadow turf lawn includes 25 types of native Irish wildflower. Professor John Parnell, Botanist and Chair of Trinity’s grounds and gardens committee, hopes the urban wil