'Pops of colour and scent' set to make Grimsby's Riverhead Square a new Garden of Eden

 

Conifers such as these Corsican pine are included in the scheme

WORK is this week underway to plant the first of an estimated 11,000 plants, shrubs and trees aimed at enhancing Grimsby's Riverhead Square.

According to North East Lincolnshire Council, the tree species selected will have a blend of characteristics covering leaf shape, colour and canopy spread. 

There will be both evergreens and deciduous specimens for year-round seasonal interest providing blossom in spring, colour in autumn and berries in winter.

NELC says the other plants will  include shrubs and bulbs as well as swathes of grasses and wildflowers with "pops of colours and scents from different flower species".

Says a statement: "The shape of the flower beds and seating and the curved flow of the area leading to Frederick Ward Way have been designed to represent our coastal sand dunes."

The planting also includes a rain garden with water-loving species.

Some existing lime trees have been removed from Riverhead.

NELC has not said whether these  will be planted elsewhere or discarded.                                              

By way of comparison, this is the Garden of Eden as depicted in a painting thought to have resulted from a collaboration by 17th Century Dutch artists Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens (via Wikimedia)