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The National Wildflower Farm
Acres of stunning wildflowers will become a familiar sight in St.Helens Merseyside, with the development of Landlife Wildflowers Ltd at its new National Wildflower Farm site.

Landlife's new project at Inglenook Farm, Rainford, St Helens is also supported by
St Helen's Metropolitan Borough Council and Knowsley Hall Estates
Inglenook farm picture
Wildflower Field-Inglenook Farm
July 2008.

This farm development will bring our wildflower fields to one stunning location, making them more efficient to grow and harvest, and providing a fantastic new nature, education and tourism resource for people in St.Helens, the Northwest and for our visitors nationally.

The farm buildings and fields around the farm house are being developed by Phytobotanica UK Ltd website.

Wildflowers are essential to wildlife and the farm will enable us to supply a living seedbank for the growing regional and national markets in new landscape creation in response to climate change and declining biodiversity.
The National Wildflower Farm is the ideal site for Landlife Wildflowers Ltd, highly visible and easily accessible. Once the fields are established we will also use the farm for some of our project work researching sustainable landscapes and engaging people with them. The wildflowers are all species in decline in the wild and the new habitat and food sources they provide will create better places for wildlife to flourish.
Grant Luscombe checking the combine harvester
Ploughed field
Inglenook Farm
Landlife Chief Executive Grant Luscombe MBE checking the combine harvester's move to Inglenook Farm.

It will be used later in the year for harvesting on the new wildflower seed fields.

Landlife has sown approx 12 hectares (30 acres) as a start, and we hope to enjoy the wildflower display this summer 2008.

Inglenook Farm is a beautiful Victorian farmhouse in a prominent location on the A570, close to Rainford, and part of Knowsley Estates.

Lord Derby, Grant Luscombe and others discuss farm
Seen here is Lord Derby on a visit to the farm in Spring 2008.


National Wildflower Farm.
Landlife’s proposal for development of Inglenook Farm. Download this 3 page document here (PDF)
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