The weather has changed to more traditional November weather with cold gale force winds and rain. So I am in dreaming and planning mode.I have about 60 Canelabra Primulas waiting to go in ,but I think they will do better getting TLC in the greenhouse waiting for the early spring.
My original plan was to just have native wild flower meadow plants in the meadow but it is made by me and not natural.(Natural would have been thistle docks and coarse long grass) .I am now thinking that maybe it is better to provide a lot of nectar rich flowers for the wildlife as well as the 130 plus wild flowers I have growing here.
The farmland all around is almost a dessert as far as wild flowers are concerned at any time of the year as it is all grazed low by sheep.
I was reading that bats appreciate nectar rich flowers to feed the insects so they have something to eat when they awake periodically from their winter sleep. So I am now thinking that its better to include some none natives as well for the wildlife. This year we had both Long Eared Bats and Pipistrells flying around. The first time in 35 years for the long Eared bats so bat boxes on the disused chimney stack looks like a must for 2012
A photographic diary of my wild flower meadow throughout 2015 depicting the flowers and wild life within the meadow.The meadow is only small less than 1/2 an acre and was started in 2006
Saturday 26 November 2011
Monday 21 November 2011
Mind November Weather
The continuing really mild weather is producing strange combinations within the meadow. While the birds are stuffing themselves on the huge quantity of large fat hips, the roses themselves are still flowering.
We have had one or two mornings with a slight frost but nothing to do any damage.
the grass is still growing ,and required a further cut.
Saturday was spent trying to remove the rocks that the builder left behind after building the stone wall. these remaining ones must weigh between 3/4 hundred weight and over .I think they may just have to be rolled to the edge of the meadow to enable me to get the grass cutters into the bottom corner.
I will then resow with annual and perennial flowers. I still have plug plants to plant but I am unsure whether or not to plant some now or to leave them all under glass until the spring I may leave the weather conditions decide.
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| Rosa Rugosa hips a birds November breakfast |
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| Rosa Rugosa still producing flowers in November |
the grass is still growing ,and required a further cut.
Saturday was spent trying to remove the rocks that the builder left behind after building the stone wall. these remaining ones must weigh between 3/4 hundred weight and over .I think they may just have to be rolled to the edge of the meadow to enable me to get the grass cutters into the bottom corner.
I will then resow with annual and perennial flowers. I still have plug plants to plant but I am unsure whether or not to plant some now or to leave them all under glass until the spring I may leave the weather conditions decide.
Monday 14 November 2011
Just so beautiful
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| "Storpharia aeruginosa |
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| "Storpharia aeruginosa |
Saturday 12 November 2011
Some More Fungi
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| Stropharia |
I must admit I am really amazed at the many different Fungi that have appeared this year .It must be due to the diverse weather conditions of 2011.
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| Stropharia |
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| Wood Blewit (Lepista nuda) |
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| Wood Blewit (Lepista nuda) |
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| Clouded Funnel (Clitocybe nebularis) |
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