Heavy rain flooded bottom of meadow I just hope the newly planted cherry tree survives . It was planted above the area that usually floods.The water table is very high as the summer was so wet .Now when we have heavy rain the water has nowhere to go.
HELLO
Welcome to the blog of my Wild Flower Meadow for 2015.
A bit late starting this year due to nasty persistent virus that was so difficult to eradicate.
Sadly this may be the last year I may be keeping a blog for my meadow . The house and acre of land will be going on the market in the not too distant future . The new owners may put the land back to grazing or development who knows .
I sincerely hope not.
I hope it will be as loved and nurtured as It has been since I started it in 2006
In the mean time I will endeavour to keep the blog up to date with lots of pictures showing how the plants and wildlife play out in 2015 .I hope you enjoy viewing it as much as I do producing it.
Please pop back from time to time to see the new additions and feel free to add any comments
Thursday 22 November 2012
Flower Meadow Flooded In Heavy Rain
Wednesday 19 September 2012
Meadow going to sleep until the spring
This is the machine I use for cutting .You walk behind it like a lawn mower. I had to cut three times as the grass has never stopped growing and it kept flattening instead of cutting |
From failure to success
Resown after 21st June |
Resown patch |
Pink Shirley Poppy Papaver rhoeas 2012m208 |
Coral and White Shirley Poppy Papaver rhoeas 2012m208 |
Deep pink Shirley Poppy Papaver rhoeas 2012m213 |
Clarkia unguiculata 2012m207 |
Calendula officinalis 2012 m212 |
Alstroemeria 2012 m214 |
Forget me not 2012 m91 |
Thursday 6 September 2012
Meadow birds
Tuesday 21 August 2012
Mid August flowers in the meadow
As we get well into August the flowers that are opening are less and less and soon the grass will be getting cut in the centre of the meadow and finally in September the sides.The grass has grown really strong and high and I just hope the self seeding of the Yellow rattle will help to control it a little better next year. A few butterflies have appeared this week but only Peacocks Eye,Small Tortoise Shell and of course plenty of Cabbage Whites
Annual Flax Linum usitatissimum 2012m203 |
Bloody Cranesbill Geranium sanguineum 2012 m204 |
Californian Poppy Eschscholzia californica, 2012 m202 |
Chamomile Anthemis nobilis 2012 m188 |
Chocolate Mint (Mentha × piperita 2012 m201, |
Common Restharrow Ononis repens 2012 m198 |
Crow Garlic Allium vineale 2012 m199 |
English Stonecrop Sedum anglicum 2012 m190 |
Golden Rod Solidago canadensis 2012 m182 |
Pineapple mint Mentha suaveolens 'Variegata 2012 m206 |
Weasel's Snout Misopates orontium 2012 m200 |
White Rosebay Willow Herb
Epilobium angustifolium 2012 m205 |
Saturday 11 August 2012
Flowers Beginning of August
Purple Toadflax linaria purpurea 2012m184 |
Bifid Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis bifida) 2012m196 |
Blackberry bush (Rubus fruticosa) 2012m194 |
Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) 2012 m191 |
Clustered Bellflower (Campanula glomerata) 2012 m185r |
Harebell ( Campanula rotundifolia 2012 m186 |
Lisimachia firecracker 2012m197 |
Smooth Hawksbeard Crepis capillaris 2012m193 |
Spear-leaved Orache (Atriplex prostrata) 2012 m192 |
Wood Avens Geum urbanum 2012 m195 |
Wednesday 8 August 2012
Meadow changing from yellow to purple and pink
The meadow is now changing
from mainly yellow and white to purple pink and white . The Ox Eye Daisies have
now gone to seed as has the Birds Foot Trefoil
and Yellow Rattle. The beautiful Pink Musk Mallow, Wild Carrot and the Lesser
and Greater Knapweed now take centre stage. Usually there would be clouds of lovely
butterflies but I can count the number I have seen so far on two hands with
fingers to spare. Just hoping if we get a bit of warm sunshine we may see some.
Quite a few Bumble Bees and pollinating insects but so lacking in butterflies.
Thursday 2 August 2012
Grasses
Barren Brome Anisantha sterilis 2012m64a |
Perennial Rye-grass Lolium perenne 2012 m176 |
Although I have not mentioned
them so far this year. I think it is now the time to add the grasses. They do
for the greater part of the plants that do grow in the meadow. I have not deliberately
sown any grasses in the meadow .Any that have grown have germinated naturally
from seeds already in the soil. I must admit these are only the ones I have
been able to identify .I am sure there are more but I am not clever enough to
identify them yet. These I have identified I have done with the help of ISPOT.
Crested Dog's-tail Cynosurus cristatus 2012 174 |
I have added Yellow rattle to the meadow this year in a bid to try and stop the grasses out growing some of the more delicate wild flowers .I think it will take a few years before the results will be noticed
Cock's-foot Dactylis glomerata 2012 m172 |
Tall Fescue Festuca arundinacea |
Rough Meadow-grass Poa trivialis 2012 m177 |
Sweet Vernal-grass Anthoxanthum odoratum 2012 m175 |
Yorkshire Fog or Creeping Soft -Grass Holcus lanatusmollis
2012 m179
|
Soft Rush Juncus effusus 2012 m180 |
Sheep's Fescue Festuca ovina 2012 m171 |
Silver hair grass caryophyllea 2012 m173 |
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