WILDSCAPING SAINT MARK'S CHURCH

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Wildscaping Worldwide was commissioned by Mother Cherry, at Saint Mark's Church, to EXTENSIVELY wildscape the land and even the church building itself.

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This has been an unprecedented opportunity to truly serve both the local human population and all of the wildlife there, from Bats to Butterflies.

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[THANKS LARGELY TO THE WILDSCAPED EXTERIOR SPACES, SAINT MARK'S CHURCH WON AN ECO AWARD.]

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WW project managed the wildscaping of Saint Mark's from the first consultation in February 2021 to completion in November 2021.  We hired landscapers to prep every inch of available ground (lifting up and removing all of the patio slabs, to liberate the soil beneath) and worked very closely with ‘Wild Roots' (wild regenerators) who collaborate with us on the different design possibilities within each space (the plants that would be happiest in each space) as well as wildscaping the space with us: this company also helped to create an ongoing maintenance plan.  

 

We hired a wonderful local building company (who ended up sponsoring the effort) to create access points in the walls and install the bird & bee bricks, as well as drilling holes for hedgehogs to use to get into the spaces.

 

We tried to create as little waste as possible: upcycling as many of the materials that were removed as we could.  In the end: all of the bricks knocked from the border walls were reused to create bug hotels, the matting from the back courtyard was upcycled into Hedgehog habitat and even the patio slabs were adopted by the church warden to take home.  all of the rubbish cleared from the space was recycled - where possible - and even old bins (removed from the back courtyard) were allocated new jobs: as crisp packet collection points for 'the Crisp Packet project.'

 

Overall, Saint Mark's was transformed and both the church and WW are ecstatic with the end result.

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