Euroflor Meadow Makers – Goring & Streatley Golf Club, Berkshire

As part of Course Manager Matt Aplin’s strategy to improve the ecological footprint of the Goring and Streatley Golf Club, the “amazingly colourful results” of sowing Euroflor urban meadow flowers “attracted as many complimentary comments about the outstanding display of colour as about the quality and performance of our greens”, he says. “The news travelled fast about the swathe of colours and we even had non-playing visitors coming to see the display!”

“The Sarah Bouquet mix of annuals was chosen – and that was definitely a wise move because a few months after sowing the area was awash with colour.”

“The success, and number of favourable comments we received, has spurred us to double the overall amount of space sown with Euroflor wildflowers this year and because we have used less seed (perhaps just 65% of what we sowed last year on a similar-sized plot), we will effectively have double the amount of colour for a relatively low additional cost.”

The cost savings to the club have also been aided by the fact that at the end of last season Matt cut down the plants and left them where they fell, to encourage natural seeding. “Already now [in May] some of last year’s seeds are 45 cms high”, he adds, “and that is as a result of using an annuals mix. That equates to real value for money.”

Matt Aplin
Course Manager
Goring & Streatley Golf Club
Berkshire