The South Hams wildflower meadows have received a boost as National Trust’s rangers have collected 76kg of wildflower seeds from local farmers and landowners.

The project to collect the seeds was a collaboration with Life on the Edge, who are part of a project team from South Devon National Landscape along with Ash Rescue Centre which also supplied seeds.

The National Trust South Devon’s Lauren Hutchinson said: “Ben and Sam from Life on the Edge worked with other partners and other private landowners around South Devon who have for over a year been growing native wildflower seeds and it's something that we've done in the past where we've had donor fields and donate wildflower seeds. “We can then bring back some of the wildflower meadows that we've we've lost.”

This autumn there were 29 potato sacks delivered which worked out to about 76 kilograms of native wildflower seeds, some of them have already been sown on a field near Colaton Fishacre.

The National Trust looks after 45 miles of coastline from Wembury all the way through Salcombe, Dartmouth, Kingswear, and Teignmouth, which includes around four and a half thousand hectares of land and countryside

Lauren explained the importance of the terrain: “The wildflower meadows and species along with rich grasslands provide a wealth of food for birds, farmland birds.

“They provide habitat for pollinators and insects and effectively, they help our food sources across farms and so they're hugely important and the more rich and diverse these grasslands become, the more that the earth becomes better so it captures carbon and the nutrients in the soil and stops water runoff.”

You can plant wildflower seeds in your garden or in flower pots in your windows if you haven't got a garden and it can help pollinators.

It can then go on to help some of these species, some of these threatened birds and farmland birds, such as the Cirl Bunting and some of the bees are starting to come back in bigger numbers.