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<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPerched on the Northumberland coastline, Alnmouth Golf Club offers members a challenging mix of seaside and parkland play in a designated area of outstanding natural beauty.<\/p>\n
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Head Greenkeeper Jim Storey has spent the last 27 years finessing that natural beauty, employing maintenance that supports both the long-term course management and local wildlife. For the last decade this work has included establishing wildflower areas and, more recently with the help of DLF Seeds, he says these have delivered both visual impact and ecological value.<\/p>\n
\u201cCreating habitats and supporting wildlife has been one of our major objectives for the last 10 years\u201d says Jim, who heads up a greenkeeping team of seven. \u201cUsing our collective knowledge and experience, the team and I have thinned out the roughs and created new spaces to support insects, pollinators, small mammals and birds. Our wildflower areas have become a really important part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jim has worked with various mixtures from DLF\u2019s Pro Flora and Colour Boost ranges to establish five wildflower areas, most recently adding a burst of colour and broad variety of flowering species with the Carnival mix. \u201cWe\u2019ve selected spaces where we can compliment the surrounding landscape and really add to the experience for the golfers, especially on a nice sunny day!\u201d<\/p>\n
Another of the recent projects sits close to the first tee, where wildflowers have been established among areas of fine fescue and yellow rattle \u2013 creating a vibrant focal point adjacent to newly planted fruit trees. \u201cWe\u2019ve now got pollinators working between the flowers and the fruit trees which is exactly what we hoped to achieve\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not just pollinators enjoying the new wildflower areas. Jim continues, \u201cWe\u2019ve definitely seen an increased in the number and variety of animals we\u2019re seeing since the introduction of the wildflower. We\u2019ve got all sorts of insect, voles and field mice which means, in turn, we\u2019re also seeing barn owls. It\u2019s been really fantastic to see.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve also enjoyed speaking with agronomists and fellow greenkeepers about the project, learning about different flowers and getting ideas together to discuss with our DLF Regional Technical Manager Ben Morgan.\u201d He concludes, \u201cEvery year we\u2019ll look to add another area if we see an opportunity, which is only going to help us get richer in biodiversity with every passing season.\u201d<\/p>\n