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Month: July 2015

The Railway Line Meadow

July 10, 2015May 1, 2016 / Jo at Pratensis / 1 Comment

  The meadow was sown in April 2014… It was sown with Emorsgate Seed's St Catherines mixture with an annual nurse crop. It was slow to get growing and had only really one flowering that was predominately the cornfield annuals in late June and July…. We cut at the beginning of September using a strimmer. … Continue reading The Railway Line Meadow

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#insects in #mygarden making it #beautiful . Annoyed that an important story about #insectdecline is given such poor coverage. @buglife @beeconservation @savebutterflies
Ah-ha oh-ho tracks in the snow. Whose are these tracks and where do they go? Could these be the tracks of the big bad mouse? #gruffalo #winterwonderland #whatchildhoodmemeoriesademadeof btw the tracks are #fox
#thismorning #mygardentoday #blessedlight #gardendesign #wildgarden #senseofplace #landscape
#phase4 of the #garden begins #drystone wall #limestone #rubble #winterwork ...#wip #gardensareneverfinished #gardendesign
Summer 2018 has seen a rise in #butterfly numbers in #mygarden they seem to prefer #native #meadow species to feed on but the caterpillars need the #spring #leaves of plants such as #salix #nettle #viburnum to feed on....tolerating #pests within the #garden is becoming increasingly necessary to promote #biodiversity #conservation #insect #buglife #mygarden #wildgarden #naturalistic #marbledwhite @savebutterflies @avonwt @somersetwt @festofnature
Wishing you all peace at #wintersolstice a time for #reflection and to recognise the #journeyoflife :that #death makes #life possible. This print is by @stanleydonwood one of a series produced every winter solstice. I absolutely love it @lunt_t 🙏. My father died at 8 o’clock in the morning on winters solstice seventeen years ago. My brother phoned me and I drove up to the farm through a freezing heavy fog. As I inched my way along the track a buzzard burst out of the hedge and grazed across the bonnet of the car. The world went into slow motion and the buzzards head turned; fixing me with an hypnotic brilliant yellow stare. This was my father leaving. When I hear the buzzard’s screech or catch it’s idiosyncratic circling form in the sky I feel his presence and his love. My father was the best gardener I have ever met; his feel for architecture and landscape was painterly and innate; and his favourite word was ‘magic’ ✨the world could use a bit of that now.
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Beginning to play with #brand #image #offering. I would like to have a true meadow plant as image but not sure that they would be as strong as this. Advice please my IG friends... I want to specialise in #meadows #ecologicalplantings #wildgardens #wetlands
I #mulched the #coppice that I planted #5 years ago with semi composted year old #barkchips. This area was where the #canal ran through and was a #grey #stagnant #unaerobic #clay covered in bramble and buddlejah when I arrived. It #stank and the soil was completely unworkable. I heard that #hazel are the best #native at restoring #fungi and #mycorrhizal life. Each year I have added a top mulch of the #bark and #leaf-mould. Now the earth smells #sweet the #creeping buttercup pulls out of the ground with ease the #worms are #thriving and I am starting to plant the #woodlandfloor #underlayer of #ferns #Melica and #bulbs 💚🌿🤞🤞#naturaldesign #naturerestores #inspiredbynature #pratensisgardens
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