Oops forgot to post a blog last week, we were busy cutting the Wild Flower Meadow, while the weather was still good. We were later than the usual August this year as we were waiting for the Purple Spotted Orchid to finally dropped its seed, it is really tiny and there are thousands of seeds on each one, so hopefully we will have alot more of them in years to come!
It is hard work cutting the meadow, it has to be scythed first by hand and then raked into piles to be picked up and taken away, then we get the mower out (we are getting to the easier bit) and mow it. We rake it again with the scarifier for the lawn this gets up a lot of the thatch from in the bottom, levels out any mole hills and other lumpy bits and then it is cut again really low, nearly scalping it. It looks really yellow and sickly but within two weeks it is green over and growing away like mad, we carry on mowing it as low as possible until the end of the season. In January the first signs of the early daffodil start to show so no more mowing then it is the Cammassias, the Fritilaria meleagris and then the grasses and wild flowers.
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