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Supporting the restoration and enhancement of flower-rich grasslands in Carmarthenshire – Cefnogi adfer a gwella glaswelltiroedd sy’n gyforiog o flodau yn Sir Gaerfyrddin

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Conservation Beef Event – Making the Most of Your Wet Grassland – 17 December 2019 7-9.30pm

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Posted on Dec 12, 2019 by earlypurpleorchid

This may be of interest to some of the group – details on the posters below:

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Article – restoration of floodplain meadows

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Posted on Nov 18, 2019 by earlypurpleorchid

In the current edition of “British Wildlife” magazine, there is an interesting article about the restoration of floodplain meadows using green hay.  This habitat is now very rare, there are <1200ha left in the UK.  The article describes how a … Continue reading →

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Straying into the realms of petitions…….

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Posted on Oct 16, 2019 by earlypurpleorchid

Members may be interested in this petition which is being organised by Rob Parry of Initiative for Nature Conservation Cymru, and it’s to urge the Welsh Goverment to include Biodiversity in the remit of NRW.  It’s not specifically included at … Continue reading →

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Plantlife Waxcap training 3 day course and Autumn Oil Beetle Information sheet.

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Posted on Oct 7, 2019 by earlypurpleorchid
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Our Autumn meeting on Saturday

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Posted on Oct 7, 2019 by earlypurpleorchid

Thank you to all our members who came along to our Autumn meeting in Llangain on Saturday. We had quite a few new members join at the event – and that, of course, is happy news. If any of our … Continue reading →

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A request for feedback

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Posted on Oct 1, 2019 by earlypurpleorchid

As you know, we have a meeting coming up on 5 October and we have a great range of interesting speakers. There are also a few small things that we just want to discuss very briefly with the members.  I wanted to … Continue reading →

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Autumn Meeting poster – here it is.

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Posted on Sep 10, 2019 by earlypurpleorchid

I decided against amending my previous post – so here is the poster. I think its being emailed to members – if you can print off from the email and put somewhere that might grab some attention, that would be … Continue reading →

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Green Hay at the National Botanic Garden of Wales – update post

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Posted on Sep 6, 2019 by earlypurpleorchid

This report follows on from the visit by CMG members to see the results of the green hay experiment at the NBGW (see previous post on the blog):  Visit to the National Botanic Garden of Wales to see results of … Continue reading →

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Eyes down for Waxcaps? and Inspiring Meadows.

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Posted on Sep 6, 2019 by earlypurpleorchid

This gallery contains 40 photos.

A quick reminder to look out for Waxcaps and other meadow fungi from now on.  Many thanks to Julian for putting together this timely post. The post is in two sections – first part, wax caps, second part some inspiring … Continue reading →

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Announcing Our Autumn meeting on Saturday 5 October 10-13.00:

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Posted on Sep 2, 2019 by earlypurpleorchid

The posters are just being finalised but whilst the translation is polished here is a summary of what will be on offer.  I will update this post with the poster once its to hand: We are meeting at Memorial Hall, … Continue reading →

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