Colourful solution to spoil bank has low establishment and maintenance costs

When Alec Davies, Course Manager at Denton Golf Club, Manchester was tasked with removing a roundabout and upgrade an access road leading to the clubhouse, he also had to work out what to do with the resultant 600 tonnes of rubble and spoil. Job one was to form it into 150m by 30m bank, graded to a height of around 3m.

“I needed to ensure the spoil bank was turned into a feature and was finished properly as it can be seen from the clubhouse,” says Mr Davies. “I was not sure what to do in the long term but initially thought we could turf the bank as and when funds became available and keep it green and weed free in the interim.”

After an initial period that saw periodic spraying to keep weeds, that included docks and thistles in check, Mr Davies decided to seed the bank with a native annual wildflower mixture from DLF Trifolium’s Masterline range. DLF are one of the UKs largest suppliers of native wild flower mixtures. Expecting weeds to continue to be a problem, he selected an annual mix which would allow spraying to be carried out before the wildflowers would germinate.

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