Category: Wildlife and Nature


Friday’s Flowers

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15/03/2013

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I am so glad its Friday. It’s already been a busy morning receiving lumber for a work party at the community garden.Tomorrow we hope it won’t rain so we can get our building party underway. Now that I am home I took a walk through the garden and guess what, it’s not raining. It is very mucky out there. The pineapple express has brought us lots and lots of rain. That has meant that it been almost impossible to get out in the garden. Good thing I have a greenhouse to tinker in.

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Today I am  linking up with Glenda over at Tootsie Time. Glenda has a gorgeous post on orchids that she saw at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. You have to check out her post.

hellebore

I love my Hellebores but dislike the fact that they hang their faces down. Lots of flowers but I can’t bend over…

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National Gardening Week – Seed Giveaway

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National Gardening Week - Seed Giveaway

It’s National Gardening Week next month and we’re celebrating by giving away 10,000 packets of wildflower seeds – let’s get Britain sowing! http://nationalgardeningweek.org.uk/

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PicPost: Conclave

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13/03/2013

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Paradise

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strelitiza_nicolai_mandela__s_gold_by_selinarainbowmoon-d5fu6rt“Paradise is open to all kinds of HEARTS”

Strelitzia reginae Aiton ‘Mandela’s Gold’

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Bee humour

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Press play: Tomb Raider with added fresh air

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Our Mud Kitchen

‘We’ve been very busy collecting to make a mud kitchen outside and at lunchtime today Miss Lowery and her mummy ‘Nessa’ put it all in position. We can use this space to explore all things muddy! Making mud mixtures, mud soup, mud stew, mud cakes and mud potions! This really helps our physical development, our knowledge of the world, communication and language and working together and sharing resources. Look at how much fun we’ve had already!…’

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Playful Landscape: Mepal, Cambridgeshire

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Mepal playful landscapeThis is the second post in a series on projects to create playful landscapes, this one located in Mepal, near Ely, in Cambridgeshire.

This play landscape was created within an existing play area on the edge of the village recreation ground. Adjoining this was an area of overgrown woodland/scrub, with a seasonal pond, used to drain the playing fields next door. I was commissioned by the Parish Council to design and specify the new landscape.

The Parish Council held an extensive consultation process to discuss early ideas and this informed the final design. It was decided to retain elements of the existing play area (2 slides and a couple of climbing frames). The brief was to devise a broadly-based play experience for children of all ages that made use of the woodland and pond if possible, and had some features just for younger children. The budget was c£50,000, funded by the Government Playbuilder Programme and other local fundraising.

The final design features the thinning of the woodland to create greater natural play potential, and includes a new tree house structure with a bridge to a mound as well as restoring the pond to be a shallow, usable play feature.

An informal hedge of native species was also planted to provide greater definition to the play area, as well as increase biodiversity, and additional turfed mounding and bark surfacing was introduced to provide landscape variety.

Some old equipment was removed, and a new basket swing and cableway introduced. There is also a new sand and water play feature for toddlers with logs for climbing or sitting on. The Playful Landscape was completed in June 2010.

Other posts of relevance:

Natural Play- ten tips for parents

Natural play – by design?

Playful Landscape- Wensum Way, Fakenham, Norfolk

‘Free range’ children?-  seven tips for successful garden play

Old School Gardener

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12/03/2013

Project Wild Thing

David Bond‘In the first of a guest blog series, filmmaker David Bond writes on how being outdoors can remedy the conflicts of family life….’

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Thinking of spring and the Dell at Bodnant

Some lovely pictures and words by Chas Spain

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