Leixlip Tidy Town Association: Easton Road Wildflower Embankment

Although we were devastated when our wildflower planting was mowed down in the mid August, we are pleased that some of the flowers have come back to life.

Easton Road Wildflower Embankment comes back to life

We are pleased that some of flowers have reappeared after the bed destruction in August.

Although the flowers are sparse in some places ........

..... the whole embankment is not too bad ....

.... as we can see from here and .....

..... from here.

Easton Road Wildflower Embankment mowed down

Leixlip Tidy Town Volunteers put many hours into preparing the soil and planting the seeds on a 350 metre stretch of Easton Road.

In early August the planting was looking really well

Here:

Then on the weekend of 16th-17th August, somebody with a blue tractor reduced it to looking like this:

See details the scale of this project below ...

Easton Road Wildflower Embankment

Leixlip Tidy Town Association has planted an area of 350 metres between the Easton Road roundabout and Glen Easton housing estate. It was decided that the planting of wildflowers would suit this embankment. We were in consultation with some experts in this type of planting. The project was carried out inMarch 2007. This project together with the proposed planting of the roundabout itself, will improve the general appearance of this part of Leixlip. Click Easton Roundabout for details on that project.