Dear Blogger
Message from David Shearan, Parish Council.
Do you cross the Perry on the bridge and bridleway from School Road? Do you walk the field edges up to the woodland known as the Drumbles? If so you will have seen that the long grass to the left of the footpath has been sprayed.
Please do not be alarmed or disheartened - the following message from Simon Gittins should gladden your heart.
öThe field margin will be sown with a special wild flower grass mix early next week. This is a new initiative designed to help the flora and fauna around many of our fields. We will be putting a total of about 25 acres across our farm this year. We have also put in thousands of trees and shrubs over the last few years.
We topped the grass first, but then had to kill the existing commercial grass mix because if we hadnÆt it would smother the wild flower seed mix. We will be rotivating the area shortly and will then drill the seed mix directly into the margin.
The mix we will be sowing contains chewing fescue, crested dogtail, hard fescue, rough stalked meadow grass, smooth stalked meadow grass, birdsfoot trefoil, black knapweed, black medick, ladyÆs bedstraw, oxe-eye daisy, red campion, bent, musk mallow, red clover, sainfoin, self heal, white campion and yarrow. We ask that people and pets stick to the footpath to let it establish and it should then become a wonderful haven for wildlifeö.
