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by newinvention
Sun Jul 07, 2024 1:23 pm
Forum: All about Garden Meadows
Topic: Yellow rattle
Replies: 4
Views: 2055

Re: Yellow rattle

I'm in Shropshire and our rattle has done extremely well again this year - too well really. I'm looking for people/meadow owners who'd like some seed for their meadows in a bid to limit the spread of ours. It is growing on a well drained, south facing slope, but is also in evidence in the wetter par...
by newinvention
Sun May 14, 2023 8:22 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Advice please on whether to roll and mow humpy bumpy anthill strewn grassland
Replies: 10
Views: 15641

Re: Advice please on whether to roll and mow humpy bumpy anthill strewn grassland

You don't say whether the anthills are over the whole acreage or not? Is it possible to keep a good number of them intact and if you really have to roll the rest? You'd then create a mix of habitats? No doubt the owls & kestrels like the longer, tussocky unmanaged grass? We have anthills in our ...