Excerpt from 'EDGE', May/June 2000, by Marian Tylecote:-
"The allotment off Ringinglow Road, which serves as the Neighbourhood Group's Wildflower Nursery, until recently produced hundreds of trees, which are flourishing on many sites in Sheffield. Now, as the name conveys, we grow only wildflowers for parks, woods and gardens. Our few remaining and very small trees, will be transferred to the new and far larger tree nursery which has been set up by the Sheffield Wildlife Trust.
Chelsea Park has become the focus of attention of the University of Sheffield Department of Landscape, who are undertaking some research on the meadow area (to the west of the park). Nigel Dunnett who has steadily gained a reputation nationally, for his work on urban parks, is exploring the possibilities of planting native and non-native perennials in standard park grassland (as at Chelsea Park) as a cost effective way of increasing visual and ecological diversity. We wish to find out which species of plants prove to be the most successful in establishing themselves in the existing grass and what the visual display is like. For the purposes of the research the trials will be based on two different mixtures of plants (in addition to those already naturally present); one which performs from May to August and one which contains a similar blend of species, but with late Summer and Autumn additions. There are to be about 180 plants in each mix, planted in two 7x7 metre areas. At a later stage it is hoped to commence work on planting interesting shrubs on the southern boundary wall (near Brincliffe Edge Road entrance) with a border of wildflowers like Red Campion and Greater Stitchwort, both of which we grow at the Wildflower Nursery."