Urban Rewilding subsidiary supplementary design workshop

 

The above image is one of many sketch visualisations done over a 3-day Urban Rewilding workshop during YFP1 week. It shows a proposed rewilded segment of the Honeyborne line aiming to create a micro-ecosystem based on the species and conditions found in Cotswolds hedgerows and ancient orchards. It includes a variety of fruiting plant species and height and texture gradation to encourage biodiversity. Some of the proposed fruiting species include:
Crab apple - Malus sylvestris
Bullace - Prunus domestica var. Nigra
Wild cherry - Prunus avium
Dogrose - Rosa rugosa - native, fast-growing and -colonising without being invasive. It is good for biodiversity, including pollinating insects, small mammals and birds.
Sloes - Prunus spinosa - Early flowering, blackthorn provides a valuable source of nectar and pollen for bees in spring. Its foliage is a food plant for the caterpillars of many moths, including the lackey, magpie, swallow-tailed and yellow-tailed. It is also used by the black and brown hairstreak butterflies.
Rowan - Sorbus aquiparia
Hawthorn - Crataegus monogyna - excellent forage for bees and other pollinating insects while its berries are a staple food for many birds. Their dense thorny branches make good nesting habitat for birds, and small mammals such as hedgehogs and stoats shelter among the trunks and roots in hedges
Brambles - Rubus fruticosus - offer nesting sites for birds like robins, wrens, and blackbirds, while also providing hiding places for hedgehogs, rabbits and field mice. Bramble’s flowers attract pollinators like honeybees, bumblebees, butterflies, hoverflies, moths, and flies.

Below is a rough photoshop visualisation of a further along part of the segment: