Olympic Gold Meadows

The Olympic Meadows were a major feature of the Olympic Park in London for the 2012 Olympic Games.  These meadows surrounded the main stadium and were a highly visible aspect of the world festival atmosphere of the park during the games. The brief was to develop a series of strongly colour-themed annual ‘flower-field’ mixes that could be direct-seeded into the site. The requirement was for continuous high-impact flowering from early July through to mid September. This was achieved through a careful balancing of species and colours to achieve this effect through successional layers. The main seed mix was for the ‘Olympic Gold Meadows’, which started with blue, orange and yellow in July and transitioned through to pure sheets of gold in August and September.