Fighting Floods with Florals: Planting Wildflowers to Stop Climate Change

Wildflowers used to scatter the UK in swathes of fiery pinks and deep blues, but after 3 centuries of rapid urban change, there’s hardly any left. Since the 1930s, a staggering 97% of our wildflower meadows have vanished.

As fields continue to get swallowed up by new-build homes, the biodiversity that exists in these rural spaces gets pushed out. This kind of habitat loss is unsustainable, and it raises an urgent question: if the countryside disappears, where is wildlife supposed go? It’s up to individuals and local communities to create space for nature to thrive.

How do wildflowers resist climate change?

Surface water flooding is already one of the biggest risks to the UK, and its being exacerbated by climate change.