Dear Members,
Our Wild Flower Walk lead by Team WI – and the weather was perfect. Everyone had the opportunity of seed sowing at KHH – with a unique blend of home-collected and dried seeds from our KHH garden – Corn Chamomile from 2015, Campion from 2016 and wild poppy also from 2015 – which were scattered over both beds, with some delicate use of the stepping stones at the rear half of our main bed. These have been in place since 2015 and very useful they are too for all sorts of reasons.
Dinner at The Pickled Ploughman, after our walk, was a truly smashing occasion and a great opportunity for becoming better acquainted.
We then walked along East End Lane to Adderbury Lakes, with 3 packets of seeds and flower-named canes for id.purposes. And the first thing Team WI was able to show our walkers, was the Dark Mullein plant (although at first even I couldn’t locate it) and after we had oohed and aahed over our new Verbascum and our poppies, ox-eye daisies, campion and white bladder campion and self-seal plant, we proceeded to sow our seeds in the main bed extension area, which Bernice and her Sister very kindly cleared completely last October. We created 7 sowings, which may or may not survive against competing weeds and the vagaries of our weather, but Team WI will be on hand to clear away those pesky weeds and water our new sowings, in the hope and anticipation of new flower blooms for 2018.
Here’s a few photos including our new Dark Mullein and our other new seedling blooms, from seeds sown in May, which managed to survive against the odds and flower prettily for us this summer …
