Join Simon Bennett for a socially distanced walk around the Washbrook Nature Reserve to look out for, and listen to the birds of Spring. We will also have a chance to look at the local flora. The walk will start at the entrance to the Reserve on Knighton Lane East (just below the roundabout with […]
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News from Knighton Green
Spring News from Knighton Green Good news, – the wildflower swathe on Knighton Green will be returning this year. A happy band of helpers managed a suitably distanced working party on Saturday. The main task of the day was to remove the turf from the wildflower area prior to sowing the seed. This year we […]
A River of Stones to celebrate Spring on Knighton Green
Help us celebrate Spring on Knighton Green by creating a river of painted stones. Children of all ages are invited to paint and decorate a small stone or pebble on the theme of Spring and place it by the newly planted coppice on Knighton Green. Let’s see how long we can make the river of […]
Wildlife Spotting in the Garden 11 – Winter Finches
If you have a garden in Knighton, you are likely to see four species of finches all year round, especially if you put out bird seed in feeders. There are also other species that you might see in winter. Throughout the year, bullfinches, chaffinches, goldfinches and greenfinches will all come to feeders and are fond […]
Wildlife Spotting in the Garden 10 – Hedge Laying
A few years ago, we took a load of overgrown Leylandii out of the garden and replaced them with native species planted in four stretches of between 2.5m and 4.5m to form a total of about 12m of hedge. Over the years, those native hedgerow plants had grown into small trees and were overshadowing other […]
Autumn jobs in the churchyard
It’s time again to prepare the meadow in the churchyard for winter. We had a great display of Ox Eye Daisies this year and we want to see them flower in profusion again next year. Once the seed heads have shed their burden we strim the dead grass and flower stalks. It’s important to remove […]
Wildlife Spotting in the Garden 8 – NatureSpot App
One of the ways to keep a record of everything you see in your garden is to record it in NatureSpot. I know that 223 of the 468 species that I’ve recorded on NatureSpot have been in my garden. The latest two this week have been a hawthorn shieldbug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale) and a caterpillar of […]
The becoming of a wildflower meadow – postscript, a new discovery!
Editor – Uta has described how a group of allotmenteers set up a wildflower meadow at the Washbrook allotments in the first two episodes. Her story concludes here. Towards the end of June, Alan Cann, a local naturalist, visited the Washbrook Allotments to look for invertebrates in the wildflower meadow. Alan has a particular interest […]
The becoming of a wildflower meadow – episode 2 by Uta Hamzaoui
Editor: Last week, Uta described the early steps in creating a wildflower meadow on Welford Rd allotments – her story continues here… The main area of the meadow was dominated by different grasses that seem to have out-competed the wildflowers on the deeper soil. Docks and Nettles also thrived in the area where the compost […]
The becoming of a wildflower meadow – a story in two parts
In 2012, a small group of people decided to create a wildflower meadow in the ‘communal area’ of the Washbrook Allotments in Knighton. The communal area can’t be used to grow produce as it sits on top of a water storage tank and only has a shallow layer of soil. For some time, a corner […]
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