We've had a busy weekend...We went along on Saturday to help plant over 600 plants on the bio-diverse teaching terrace.

Here we are sniffing the 'Thymus pseudoanuginosus' before it is planted!
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Nigel (Sheff Uni), Jeff (from the Green Roof Centre) and Anita (HSBC) made sure we knew what was going where.

Pete, Peter, Gavin, Wendy, Barrie, Geoff and Cath then helped to carry all the plants up to the terrace, take the weeds out and plant all the plants. You can hardly see some of the plants as they are just a few sticks (apparently they'll grow next year) but some were more than a metre tall!
There was a big list of special plants that like dry soils, they should like it in the bio-roof substrate that is on the terrace. Things like Achillea 'Walter Funcke', Kniphofia 'Nancy's Red' and Stachys byzantia 'Big Ears'. Plants do have funny names, apparently they are 'Latin' (a very old language).

It looks very different now and we hope folks like it. A bit of rain would be good to give all the plants a good drink. Keep your fingers crossed for lots of flowers and interesting wildlife in the next year.