Members of the Parish Council's LCG have become official Cormac volunteers with responsibility for the corner of land between Coombe Drive and Coombe Lane. Amanda Marks had already planted up an old dinghy to create a space for pollinators and increase biodiversity by creating a wildlife corridor to her nearby garden.This has been very successful.
Planted boat at Coombe Corner:Echiums planted as a backdrop to the boat when flowering attracted six different species of bee visiting over the summer.Verbena, the tall pink variety, has drawn in many different butterflies.Open flowers of a daisy form attract pollinators, including the Cape Daisy that is often grown as an annual but here in Cornwall in the mild weather is a perennial.Agapanthus is a favourite of the hummingbird hawk moth which visits us from the Mediterranean in the Summer and these have been spotted in Coombe Corner during the month of July.
