Category: 4. April 2022
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Working for Wildflowers
With spring firmly upon us, we spent a sunny Saturday morning preparing the ground for wildflowers around the two new ponds we created over the winter. As anyone who has established a new meadow will know, careful ground preparation is key to success. Excessive soil fertility and the pernicious weeds that often accompany it are…
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A dawn walk in springtime
Late April / early May is my favourite time of year in England. There is no finer place to be at this time of year, with the blackthorn coming into bloom, freshly minted green leaves emerging along the hedgerows and the joys of the dawn chorus as our overwintered birds are joined by the first…
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Hedgerow flowers
An early morning Spring walk (more of which in a later post), revealed a surprising number of wildflowers, nestling in the protection of our hedges. Hedgerows are often described as linear woodland and the flowers we found reflect this – being more typically associated with woodlands than the open grasslands that make up most of…
Hope for the Lappinch 