Anglesey Wild Flower Meadow: June 2012

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

Saturday, 30 June 2012

More orchids for last day of June

Perfumed Hedge

Rosa Rugosa so beautiful when in flower and to follow the giant hips later that the birds and
wild life love so much\

The large amount of rain we have had this month is really giving all the plants in the meadow a good boost. The Rosa Rugosa hedge that separates the from the farmers land beyond is full of beautiful roses I don’t think it will grow much taller as the cows put their heads over the fence and eat it.

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After this mornings rain the sun came out and as I walked down the meadow the beautiful rose perfume that reminds me of Turkish delight kept wafting my way so so lovely

Monday, 25 June 2012

Anglesey Wild Flower Meadow: Newts

Anglesey Wild Flower Meadow: Newts: This is the pond in the garden and although not really part of the Meadow Blog, it is connected as the meadow attracts wild life int...

Newts

This is the pond in the garden and although not really part of the Meadow Blog, it is connected as the meadow attracts wild life into the garden.

At this point I appologise for the poor quality of the photos but they are taken at night using a powerful torch and flash on the camera .This has made the images a little fuzzy as the newts are under the water.

I don't know exactly what kind of newts they are some are orange underneath and others look to be a bluey green underneath. I think they are most probably common newts.

Tonight I counted nine full size newts but I am sure there are more . It was only just going dark so there may be more out later.I only found out this last week that I could see them with a torch in the water at night. So glad I had the bat light fitted or I would never have known they were there

Thursday, 21 June 2012

The best laid plans of mice and men etc etc

Things don’t always go as we plan . I thought I was creating a lovely Irish wild flower section in the meadow but it wasn’t to be . I don’t know what happened a huge amount of rape suddenly appeared .We pulled out hundreds but after the heavy rain there were thousands not hundreds and all flowering at 2 to 3 inches high. The only solution was to treat it with Round Up ..If left it the whole meadow would be covered in a couple of years.

The only way I think it could of happened is it must have been in the hen food. I had put some hen manure there when cleaning the hen pen before I transferred it to the compost heap

Rather than leave it empty I have filled the space with plug meadow plants I had coming on in the greenhouse and lots of nectar rich plants from the garden. I have also sown more meadow seeds and some annuals as well.

I'll just have to keep my fingers crossed and see how it works

Wednesday, 20 June 2012

New Flowers 3rd week in June

Field Scabious,
Knautia arvensis
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Lesser Stitchwort
Stellaria graminea
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Pink Dog Rose
Rosa canina
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Red Valarian
Centranthus ruber
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White Dog Rose
Rosa canina
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Flanders Poppy
Papaver rhoeas
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Vipers Bugloss

Echium Vulgare

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First orchids to flower thisyear

Common Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii)2012m98

The orchids are starting to flower so far they four different places I will post better pictures when they are in full flower

Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Nosy neighbours

Two nice dry days followed the wind and gale .A good chance to get the grass in the centre of meadow mown before the rain and gales that are forecast return later in the week

It was a lovely evening the air heavy with the scent of new mown grass.
As I searched the grass for new flowers for the blog I became aware of being watched .It was the four legged neighbours in the field next door.