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 classic books 'Where have all the flowers gone?' (2008) and 'Irreplaceable Woodlands' (2014).

(He tells us he has been trying to retire, but with very little success, unlike his meadow creation. This Flower has not gone, so NRN are delighted for the opportunity his delayed retirement has given to host these two Workshops at Long Mead).