On 31 March, English Heritage announced that it would restore and create wild meadows surrounding 100 historic sites in England to celebrate the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III. English Heritage is a charity that looks after historic monuments, buildings and places across England.
John Watkins, English Heritage’s head of gardens, told The Guardian newspaper, “The one shocking figure is that 97% of meadows that were recorded in the 1930s had been lost by the mid-1980s... that’s not just a biological disaster, it’s a cultural disaster.”
Historic sites like Stonehenge in Wiltshire were once blanketed in wild orchids, while St Mary’s Church in Kempley in the Forest of Dean was home to a locally native daffodil, which is now very rare.
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