Strategy for a meadow
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 1:28 pm
I am lucky enough to have a meadow next to my house. For some years I have rented it out to sheep who eat everything except nettles and thistles and attracted a lot of flies. It also has some tress in it - ash, birch, willow, apple trees. This year no sheep and I have mowed selectively to allow areas to to play with the dogs. As well as the thistles there is a lot of yarrow, knapweed, grass, clover, some ragwort. I am on the North Wales/Shropshire border so the varieties of butterfly I see is limited but this year we have had orange-tips, the whites, meadow browns, commas, gatekeepers, speckled woods - all you would expect to see as well as recently a small copper.
Can anyone suggest a strategy for encouraging wildlife especially butterflies? I no longer have any intention of renting it out for livestock. In particular are there any seeds worth sowing?
Can anyone suggest a strategy for encouraging wildlife especially butterflies? I no longer have any intention of renting it out for livestock. In particular are there any seeds worth sowing?