Anglesey Wild Flower Meadow: August 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

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