UK's National Wildflower Centre is no more

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To all our wonderful followers,

With great sadness Trustees have decided to close the National Wildflower Centre and related businesses in February 2017.

After 16-years of being at the heart of the community, and 41-years since the charity was first established, Trustees have made the difficult decision to wind down all business operations.

Trustees, staff and volunteers would like to thank all our loyal, wonderful customers and visitors who have been part of our wildflower journey.

Trustees would also like to thank our fabulous dedicated staff and volunteers who have worked so hard over the years.

Official statement: http://www.nwc.org.uk/news&post=516

This was UK's main hoard of native wild flower seeds.

Established in 1975, the National Wildflower Centre is a pioneer of creative conservation with a great track record in establishing new wildflower meadows and landscapes for the benefit of people and wildlife, often in areas with the greatest social and environmental justice demands. The National Wildflower Centre’s approach has been highly innovative, its techniques delivering and informing the recreation of our wildlife through rewilding projects throughout the UK and beyond.

Comments

[asher63.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear this.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

This is very sad news. I have bought seeds from Landlife, but not recently.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

This is sad news.  Someone should save it. 

We need more flowers not less. 

Athena

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Maybe we do need it but we won't pay for it. There is no someone, just us.

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Well, we have a couple of "concept stores" open in fashionable areas of London every day instead. The sterile empty ones where three t-shirts costing hundreds of pounds are displayed under elaborate lighting in an empty room. You know the ones that you can't even be sure that they are actually shops when you enter them and if you ask "Is it a shop?" you will probably get "It is a philosophy" (how I have no clue). I like the shop assistants with paralysed faces and big lips there, it is like talking to androids. That's apparently what we choose to pay for these days.

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We will have five more pointless Prada stores appearing instead. That's what we choose to pay for these days apparently.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Well, I can honestly say that my Landlife seed order money will not be going to Prada instead. More likely the essential food and fuel bills that increase year on year...

I know I could move to a city and earn more and live a different kind of life, but honestly, I doubt I would be earning enough that way to prop up the Landlife centre to the tune of more than a t-shirt that way. I wonder how many of their other supporters are in a similar place.

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Those shops are always so empty, I have no idea how so many of them can survive. And I probably am a rather typical target of theirs, I am relatively in the money, not very deep, etc. And yet, I do not even know many people who are into that stuff. Someone once dragged me into a Prada store however and asked me to try a pair of trousers on. I looked like a giant deranged woman in pantyhose three sizes too small in them. I definitely cannot pull off "fashion" and "trendy".