Charles Flower is passionate about restoring the countryside. After the dark decades of the 1960s and 1970s, he developed pioneering practical methods of resatoring wildflower meadows on his own 175 acre farm in East Wiltshire. With his mehods he was able to establish wild flowers on fertile farmland. This led him to begin growing wild flower seed crops. Key projects were the 85 acre extension to Butterfly Conservation’s  Magdalen Hill Down Nature reserve in Hants and the 700 acre arable reversion around  Stonehenge. He has restored  wild flowers to  every kind of garden, farm and estate. As a doyen of wildflower restoration, he is consulted by organisations like the National Trust and by many landowners and farmers, so helping to ensure the future of our traditional wildflowers, many of which are still disappearing.

He is the author of two classics: 'Where have all the Flowers gone?' (2008) and 'Irreplaceable Woodlands (2014). 

(He tells us he has been 'trying to retire' but unlike his meadow creations, he has met with very little success. So this Flower has not yet gone and the NRN are delighted to host these two Workshops at Long Mead).