Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has celebrated the completion of a project to update the Wildlife Garden at the Home of Rolls-Royce at Goodwood in a grand reopening ceremony.
Occupying a small, secluded area just inside the main gates, the Wildlife Garden supports a wide variety of plants, insects, birds and animals native to the South of England.
The Wildlife Garden will help to provide a safe haven for a variety of plants, insects, birds and animals native to the region The rejuvenation, carried out in partnership with Chichester District Council and the South Downs National Park Trust, reflects changes in conservation thinking and practice since the Wildlife Garden was established almost 20 years ago, as part of the original landscaping of the Goodwood site.
As part of the Strategic Wildlife Corridor, the Wildlife Garden will play an important role in protecting biodiversity, particularly honeybees, bumblebees, butterflies and other pollinators, by reconnecting habitat areas previously fragmented by human activity.
The updated garden also incorporates elements of the winning design from the Wildlife Garden Competition held in 2021, in which children aged five to 11 were invited to submit ideas for new features that would benefit both wildlife and people.
Iris' section of the conservation project strives to conserve the UK's wild hedgehog population Iris, then aged eight, created Tiggy Town, to help support the U.K.'s wild hedgehog population, which is in critical decline.
Her individual hedgehog houses, each with its own address, have been lovingly made to her design by apprentices in the Interior Surface Centre.
Some welcome additions to the project also included a new seating area created using recycled wooden pallets, a newly rebuilt entrance gate and the creation of a safe bark pathway through the garden.
Occupying a small, secluded area just inside the main gates, the Wildlife Garden supports a wide variety of plants, insects, birds and animals native to the South of England.
As part of the Strategic Wildlife Corridor, the Wildlife Garden will play an important role in protecting biodiversity, particularly honeybees, bumblebees, butterflies and other pollinators, by reconnecting habitat areas previously fragmented by human activity.
The updated garden also incorporates elements of the winning design from the Wildlife Garden Competition held in 2021, in which children aged five to 11 were invited to submit ideas for new features that would benefit both wildlife and people.
Her individual hedgehog houses, each with its own address, have been lovingly made to her design by apprentices in the Interior Surface Centre.
Some welcome additions to the project also included a new seating area created using recycled wooden pallets, a newly rebuilt entrance gate and the creation of a safe bark pathway through the garden.
