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The Big Meadow Search (BMS) started out in 2021 as a modest project just for our county, to get more of an idea of which plants were in grassland on our members’ land. It arose from a discussion in the … Continue reading
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One of the aims of Carmarthenshire Meadows Group (and all Meadows Groups) is to increase the area occupied by species-rich grassland in our county. We hope to encourage landowners to manage their grassland, whether it’s on a garden scale or … Continue reading
The meadows at Great Dixter are one of the richest and most diverse garden meadows in the UK and contribute to a very high level of biodiversity in the garden. Fergus Garrett will be giving the talk -and given his … Continue reading
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In November last year, as part of our winter meetings programme which we were having online due to Covid, we had a fascinating talk on the meadows of the Elan Valley from Sorcha Lewis. One of the reasons we asked … Continue reading
The Meadows Group’s main mission is to be a forum for the exchange of knowledge and experience in meadow management, restoration, and creation. The group exists to help and support those who own or manage meadows so as to maintain them … Continue reading
Bruce Langridge, Head of Interpretation at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, has been in touch, asking if we would distribute the link to his recent blog post on the NBGW website. Always interested in what is going on over … Continue reading
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
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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As mentioned in a previous post (https://carmarthenshiremeadows.com/2019/04/11/visits-to-cmg-members-fields/) we’d like to encourage Meadows Group members to visit each other’s fields to exchange knowledge and experience as well as having a nice walk in a meadow. So Andrew and Helen Martin will … Continue reading
A post from Andrew: Our two fields (which are managed as meadows) are adjacent but separated by a treeline. The treeline comprises 6 large oaks and some hawthorn, willow, blackthorn, holly and hazel with bramble undergrowth. The canopy of the oaks is … Continue reading
Carmarthenshire Meadows Group - Grŵp Dolydd Sir Gaerfyrddin 