Some Things Are A Long Time Coming

 When we moved in nearly 17 years ago our back field was full of wild flowers, then we decided to interfere and create a prairie. We followed all the rules, mowing short in September after all the seeds had had a chance to fall and then raking up the grass to stop it rotting down to make compost as wild flowers flourish in impoverised soil, so they tell us! However we soon lost the orchids followed over the years by everything else except the grass. We didn't plant yellow rattle which is supposed to be the key to making wild flower meadows but we have both attempted to seed various other flowers over the years (recorded on the blog) but without success. Last year, because of John's lack of stamina coupled with other events, he did not rake up the grass and voila this year we have the best display of wild flowers we have ever had.

  Scabious and Ladies Bedstraw predominantly.

Some would say this is an "arty" photo, some would say it is just out of focus. I would say it was taken to show that we also have the odd Ox Eye Daisy.

We will probably follow the same regime this year as the stamina is unlikely to return!!