Spring has arrived along the B Corridor, bringing colour, life, and a welcome reminder of why this landscape matters. After a long, grey winter, the verges, hedgerows and riverbanks are waking up, and so are the creatures that depend on them.
Walk any stretch of the corridor this month and you will notice the change underfoot. What looked like bare ground in February is now a patchwork of green, threaded with the first flowers of the year.
What's flowering
The earliest colour comes from the humble pioneers of the hedge bank, plants we too often mow away before they have a chance to do their work. This spring, look out for lesser celandine, primrose and cowslip, dandelion, and blackthorn frothing white along the older hedgerows.
What's buzzing
Where there are flowers, there is movement. The first queen bumblebees are out, fresh from hibernation and searching for both food and a place to nest. On warmer afternoons you may catch the season's first butterflies tracing the line of the hedge.
A corridor is only as strong as the stepping stones that make it. Every flowering verge is one more place for life to rest, feed and move on.
How you can help
You don't need a large garden, or any garden at all, to be part of this. The simplest thing most of us can do is also one of the most powerful: leave the mower in the shed a little longer.
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