Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley
Wildflower meadows are all the rage for many reasons: they can be a bright and cheerful spectacle when they are at their flowering peak in May and June, they produce nutritious winter food for livestock, but most importantly from my perspective, they are theRead More
Leave a comment We found plenty of plants in flower unexpectedly over new year but there is one plant that is actually meant to flower in the cold and dark month of February, the dandelion-like coltsfoot or colt’s foot, take your pick. The name is because theRead More
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Yellow Rattle is a wild flower that has for a long time acquired almost a cult status as the plant to introduce to a wild flower meadow to suppress grasses and so allow the wild flowers that grow with them, to flourish. Yellow rattleRead More
2 responses There are many stands of tall plants with yellow daisy-like flowers around the valley’s fields and hedges at this time of year, some are Fleabane but the taller ones are Ragwort. Ragwort has a mixed reputation, it is poisonous but it plays an importantRead More
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There has been a grass landing strip at Farway Common Airfield for the last thirty years. During that time the surrounding land, which is on the clay with flints geology that surrounds our valley and very wet all winter, has been managed as aRead More
3 responses A year-long survey of the valley’s wild flowers has found over 400 different species, many of them recorded 170 years ago by a local doctor and amateur botanist. As part of the Biodiversity Group’s project to catalogue the area’s wildlife, a group of volunteersRead More
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