Lake Meadows, a popular and extremely well-visited park in the heart of Billericay, Essex, has been receiving much public praise for a flower meadow sown with a Euroflor seed mix.

The flourishing Friends of Lake Meadows group of volunteers and supporters work together with Basildon Council to maintain and develop the park.


Lake Meadows' Euroflor display

“We have been overwhelmed that so many park users have commented on how amazing the flower meadow is and how much they have enjoyed it,” say the Friends of Lake Meadows.

Park users have used comments like “stunning” about the flower meadow adjacent to the lake.

The meadow was sown in the spring by the council, using designs supplied by the Friends incorporating an ‘S’ shaped grass walkway celebrating Major Spitty - a local landowner who excavated the lake during the 19th century depression using unemployed farmworkers.

Seeds, planting advice and expertise were provided by Rigby Taylor using a mix called ‘Sarah Bouquet’ which provides height, colour and a prolonged flowering period.

Around 50 annual flowers are included in the Sarah Bouquet mix which is sown in March and flowers from May through to the first frosts of October or November.

Euroflor and Rigby Taylor consultant Howard Wood said: “We are delighted at the public reaction to this flower mix, which is one of our most successful.”