In the early days of the Meadows Group, we arranged to visit not only nature reserves belonging to/managed by various conservation organisations but also fields belonging to the new group’s individual members. This was a very useful thing to do, and … Continue reading
Category Archives: Wildflower Meadows
Post Spring Meeting thoughts
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As the person who manages the website for CMG, I must apologise for the late running of this blog post due to the prior arrival of way too much work. I now am putting that right. In time honoured fashion, … Continue reading
2019 Spring Meeting – 23 Mawrth/March 2019
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2019 Spring Meeting Yes, its nearly Spring and time to post the details of our spring meeting. We hope to see you and what we think will be a useful and practical meeting: We are promoting this meeting on various … Continue reading
Caterpillar Eating Fungus
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It’s not too late in the year to find interesting things in our meadows. And I’d don’t mean 50 p coins… About 3 weeks ago I found a very small, and unfamiliar orange fungal fruiting body at one edge of … Continue reading
Plantlife and its campaign for proper mapping of meadows.
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You may have already been following Plantlife’s campaign for a full inventory of Britain’s remaining meadows. There is a petition to encourage wider participation in the issue. Plantlife have recently had the opportunity to meet with the Special Advisor on the … Continue reading
Reflections on the Blaen Tir meadow 2017/18
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Many thanks to Derek for providing both his observations on and photographs of his stunning meadow over the strange year that has been July 2017 to July 2018: It was never going to be a normal year from the late … Continue reading
Autumn Meeting Details – 22 September 10.00 – 13.00
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Events and notifications……
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August Events from Bee Wild West Wales, Bumblebee Conservation Trust There are bumblebee blitz events in August – please see the posters below. Apologies that some of these are already passed. The focus of these sessions is to visit sites which are … Continue reading
Diverse Forages?
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Thank you to Julian for these interesting observations: What a summer to remember! For any meadow owners who’ve had to cut a crop for hay, or haylage it’s clearly been the best year in ages for getting it into a … Continue reading
So different from last year….
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Last year was not a great one for haymaking…. This year has been so good so far – and so the plunge was taken today and the first half field has been cut. The seed heads of the rattle were … Continue reading
Carmarthenshire Meadows Group - Grŵp Dolydd Sir Gaerfyrddin 