Wildflowers in Holbeck Leeds

Photograph of wildflowers growing on previously industrial wasteland in Holbeck, Leeds.

I was driving through Holbeck not far from Leeds city centre on a lane that I rarely travel on when I saw lots of colourful wildflowers growing adjacent to the road. Apart from meadows in the Yorkshire Dales I have never seen such a profusion of wildflowers elsewhere in Yorkshire.

This sudden flowering in Holbeck is not natural, it is part of a Green Corridor project here in Holbeck. I thought that this was the case, because it reminded me as a much better example of wildflower seeding than that done this year in the temporary park created in Bradford city centre where the retail development should be.