Bolton businesses can sponsor flower planters in Harwood

Flower planters have emerged in Harwood and Bradshaw with local firms advertising their services on them.

Conservative ward Cllr James Moller has encouraged more companies to get involved as it means money for the upkeep of the area can continue to make the areas nice places to live as well as giving back.

So far, three planters have been supported.

The businesses will be able to advertise on them for a year, and the flowers will be changed twice.

Cllr Moller said: “We’ve put some of the flowers in already and we want to also start to encourage young people to get involved in the future to plant them, and hopefully they will appreciate it more as well.

“We’re looking for businesses to get involved and sponsor one of the planters.

“The businesses get to show their support for the area and community while also advertising their own business.”

The flowers are a welcome addition to Harwood and Bradshaw and are also a way to encourage more bees in the area.

Cllr Moller said: “The flowers make the area look colourful and bright and helps the bees along the way.

“We want to show we appreciate the place we live in and for the businesses, it’s a small token of thought to the community they operate in.

“It’s a small cost for the people who use their services too and we all want to see flower planters in Bolton.

More recently, there was a call to improve biodiversity by transforming empty green spaces with wildflowers.

Liz Turner-Allen, who lives on Hope Street North, hopes that by planting these it will help attract more bees and butterflies and help with biodiversity.

The flower advocate won the support of the community but to plant them would not be without difficulty as the land needs to be prepared.

She said: “It could be replicated across the whole of Bolton, and they could be left, and wildflowers would grow.”

Liz's campaign for wildflowers can be supported online.