ENVIRONMENTAL artist Lesley Martin will be at Nant Mill visitor centre to celebrate the opening of the BBC’s Breathing Places Wildlife Garden.

The BBC initiative aims at getting communities friendlier with wildlife and is funded by the Big Lottery.

Coedpoeth Community Council received £10,000 from the Lottery fund to help it develop the garden. Named Nant Mill’s Breathing Place, it has a pond and an array of wildflowers.

Lesley will also be hosting a workshop teaching children to make willow butterflies between 11am and 4pm and will be taking part in a walk around the mill’s grounds to celebrate the opening of the garden on Saturday, June 6.

To date £8.5m has been invested across Britain into green space from scrubland to city parks and wasteland to woodland.

For more information, call Brena John on 01978 752772 or email countryparks@ wrexham.gov.uk.

The park is open all year. The visitor centre is open from 10.30am-4.30pm until September and weekends only from October to Easter.