Wildflower Seeds for Nottinghamshire: Native Mixes for Sherwood Sandstone and the Trent Valley Nottinghamshire’s soils tell the story of Sherwood Forest before you even reach a single tree. Across the west and centre of the county, light, acidic sand weathered from the Sherwood Sandstone Group gave rise to the heathland and oak woodland that made
Quick answer: Yes, a winter holiday in Mid Wales can be properly warm. Graig Fawr has underfloor heating throughout, run from air source heat pumps and solar panels, and heating is included in every booking. Snow is the bigger question: our lane is never gritted and snow can briefly block it, so you need a
Is a Winter Holiday in Mid Wales Warm Enough? Heat Pumps, Snow and Getting Here Read More »
Warwickshire’s Arden clay and Feldon limestone need different seed. Here’s how to choose, sow and manage wildflower seeds for Warwickshire well.
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Wood meadows explained: how hay meadows under trees were managed for centuries, why they declined, their value for wildlife, and how to create one today.
Wood Meadows: History, Management and Wildlife of Britain’s Forgotten Habitat Read More »
Choosing wildflower seeds for Carmarthenshire: rhos pasture, wet clay farmland, Tywi floodplain, Black Mountain acid ground and coast, with sowing advice.
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Wildflower seeds for Shropshire: native mixes for the acid Shropshire Hills, Wenlock Edge limestone, north plain clay and sand, meres and river silts.
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Wildflower seeds for Gloucestershire: mixes for Cotswold limestone, Severn Vale clay, floodplain silt and Forest of Dean acid soils, with sowing advice.
Quick answer: No holiday cottage in rural Wales can promise a silent New Year, including ours. Graig Fawr is well away from neighbours, but fireworks are allowed and sound carries across open countryside. If New Year fireworks frighten your nervous dog, arrive days early, walk in daylight and stay in with them until after 1am.
New Year Fireworks and a Nervous Dog: A Quieter Holiday in Mid Wales Read More »
Native bluebell bulbs: how to buy legal, genuinely native stock, tell Spanish and hybrid bluebells apart, and plant drifts that establish in woodland.
Native Bluebell Bulbs: How to Buy, Plant and Protect Them Read More »
How to grow wild garlic (ramsons) from bulbs and seed: where it thrives, when and how deep to plant, how it spreads, and how to manage it on a woodland floor.
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How to plant snowdrop bulbs for drifts that spread: dry bulbs in autumn or in the green after flowering, depth, spacing, soil, and care in grass and woodland.
How to Plant Snowdrop Bulbs: Dry Bulbs or In the Green Read More »
Wildflower Seeds for Somerset: Native Mixes for the Mendips, the Levels and the Hills Somerset packs more contrast into one county than almost anywhere in southern England. Limestone gorges and thin calcareous turf on the Mendips; wet, peaty grassland on the Levels and Moors, criss-crossed by rhynes; acidic heath and oak woodland on the Quantocks;
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