WildFlower Walk

Saturday marked the first of the wildflower walks as part of the array of themed walks on offer organised by Burnley Leisure and Culture and Newground Together’s Great Outdoors Team. Three volunteers and I started from Burnley Youth Theatre and began our walk down Netherwood Road and around the back of Rowley Lake. We stopped often so that I could identify the different wildflowers, trees, grasses, and bushes along the way. We saw a broad variety of wild flowers including, Yellow Rattle, Common Birdsfoot trefoil, bush vetch, Spear Thistle, and common knapweed; grasses like Yorkshire Fog, Crested Dogs Tail, Cocksfoot Grass, and False-Oat grass. The volunteers enjoyed the wildflower walk and we shared ideas along the way all of us coming away from the session having benefitted.