We had a very productive day last week and made a huge difference to the Nectar Garden, weeding and mowing it. We also cleared a path up to the mound and cleared around a lot of the shrubs, that were disappearing into the meadow.
There is a beautiful pyramidal orchid at the base of the mound – we seem to get just one each year, always in a different place – maybe one year the field will be full of them! Many seeds have germinated on the new dry dip and our meadow is looking beautiful.
We will be on the field again tomorrow (2:30pm Tuesday 16th July), strimming around the bigger trees. The contractor will cut most of the meadow mid August, after the seeds have dropped or flown.
Sadly the ‘donated’ fish have eaten the many hundreds of tadpoles that we had in the spring -we didn’t even see one froglet! The fish are multiplying like crazy and now range from huge to very small fry, so in a couple of years we may well be in the same position as this Nottinghamshire village pond
If you want to fish them out and rehome them, please go ahead with our blessing!
FoDGS had a table yesterday at Duxday – we didn’t get any new members, but quite a few have now joined their gardens up to the Duxford Nature Network – we’re hoping to really roll out this programme this year and we’ll be pushing it at the Festival on 21st September. I hope soon create a web-page where you can add your garden automatically.
