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#15 plant wildflowers The bees, especially those living in the wild are in trouble. They don’t find

#15 plant wildflowers 

The bees, especially those living in the wild are in trouble. They don’t find enough blossoms to collect pollen and nectar from in urban areas. Help them by throwing seedbombs with wildflower seeds everywhere in town!


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I do do other things than just transcribe all day. Amongst them is gardening. I have a longish side project going on where I managed to convince the commissioners of the local parish to let me turn ¼ acre of the hilly section of a common field into a wild flower meadow.

I started late in 2018. And tried lots of fun methods to get it going. First was seed bombs. Nada. The grass and existing plants out competed the seeds. They blew in the wind to other parts of the village so Fox and Cubs and poppies etc sprung up lane verges and on the paths of the graveyard, following the direction of the prevailing wind.

I froze thousands of yellow rattle seeds to try to acclimatise them and break their dormancy.

It is a semi parisitic flower that weakens grass. It is also notoriously difficult to germinate and it only germinates from the previous year’s seeds. Shelf life miniscule. I was like I’ve germinated Himalyan poppies this will be a piece of cake. Er, no. ££ sunk in and nada. Yellow rattle rage is a thing apparently.

Meanwhile, the field in spring was showing up with dandelions, buttercups, daisies, plaintain and ground elder. Nothing special and in comparison to the tussocky unkept parts of field not much different for biodiversity. Thus proving, wildflower growing is not as easy as let go and leave. So more reading on meadow management.

In the summer, we cut out a trefoil outline and turned it over with a cultivator to see if flower seeds might germinate on that. More seed sowing, but dandelions and ground elder soon colonized.

Luckily, plan d, was a bunch of seeds I had grown at home. With the with the help of a lovely Brownie pack we pricked out, grew on and planted 100 plants. Little tooth pick flags were used to identify them and like a lunatic I had to individually visit them and water them for a week (hence the trefoil path and flags so they could be easily found) until the rain finally came to take over their settling in process. We added marguerite and cornflowers, borage and red clover successfully established.

But the factor that made all the difference was in someways the most obvious: meadow management. In late summer, I went out with a strimmer. It took five days to strim the whole area back. I worked slowly to encourage, voles, lizards and beetles to head for the tussocks. I burned my arms on giant hogweed sap mistaking its umbelliferous form for the ubiquitous ground elder.

Next our domestic mower set to high and another week of spent mowing and collecting the grasses into mounds for drying. Once dried, they could be rolled onto tarp to be dragged to the massive composting heap. Removing any cut great matter was my best chance of weakening the current sward to give the plants a fighting chance. After that fortnight, I was shattered, sweaty, burnt, dusty heap myself.

strimmed and a quarter mowed

A small envelope of local island yellow rattle free from the Manx Wildflower Trust did germinate and now this spring I’ve spotted a dozen or so making their appearance.

At the end of February another much easier cut (only 2 days of backbreaking work). So finally come this spring we have our usual display of the old familiars but hello to some newbies. Last years’ wild flowers planted by the Brownies have also filled out.

Lockdown has resulted in only being allowed a short visit so I tried painting seeds onto loo roll and leaving ribbons of loo paper on the path topping them with seed compost but four weeks of no rain has made this look detritus from a Halloween after party.

Walking the dog, I have been out with a weed puller just to knock back the ground elder a bit. Will take on other plants that tend to dominate the sward later.

I plan to stash another 100 plants on the cultivated path section (all again grown from seed to healthy plugs). Then the summer cut is essential to disperse their seeds and further weaken the grass and remove more nutrients as wild flowers favour poor soil.

My advice; assume a five year process. Cut and remove clippings twice a year. Get a cultivator and turnover a working path for planting little wild flower plugs you’ve grown yourself. Get local yellow rattle, do not waste your cash on other supplies as reliability is poor and there is no way of check yours is from this year’s crop. And do make little toothpick flags and invest in a watering tank back pack or hope to heck there is a water outlet near by. Best of luck.

Canyon Creek Meadow and Three Fingered Jack

Canyon Creek Meadow and Three Fingered Jack


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Beach flower

Beach flower


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This one is a #tbt but it us #daffodils time again #narcisos. In Wales to see the first one blooming

This one is a #tbt but it us #daffodils time again #narcisos. In Wales to see the first one blooming means wealth for the year. They are the heralds of Spring. Also a symbol of friendship in victorian times.
#flowerstagram #flowers #folklore #fairiesofinstagram #fairycore #blooming #wildflowers #inthewoods #wintertospring #greendress
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Bluebelltime!!Yes!Yes!~Charlotte-AnneFidler

#bluebells    #flowers    #fields    #wildflowers    #edit nature    #nature    #my edit    

Wild Orchids

Grow in surprising places. Apparently our local ladies’-tresses species, whichever one it is, likes the mowed areas near the bit of marsh.

This was the best, most in-focus pic I got. They don’t grow very tall and… let’s just say, various joints Do Not Like getting low enough to look through the viewfinder. So it was get the camera in more-or-less the right position, click, and hope.

Not as in-focus, but shows you the whole bloom-spike. 

Okay, the orchid might not be as interesting in this one, but wow look at the spikiness of that dewberry! 

…Seriously, look at that. And if you mean to pull any in your yard, get gloves on first. Those spines are sharp and thin enough to drive into your finger joints. Getting them out is… an adventure. One that may require surgery if you’re unlucky. No one needs that. 

And a long shot of a full flower spike on one of the more ambitious orchids. Hee.

Note, I honestly do not know which species it is. It might be this one

Or maybe this one. Or possibly some other I haven’t found good pics of yet. We have Pine Barrens tree frogs locally, so who knows what other critters and plants have a refuge here. 

Note: When you think about characters being sent out on scavenger hunts to gather rare herbs and components, think about this. Odds are whatever it is, is in someone’s backyard. You just have to find the right one….

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