theWI Adderbury & District WI – Monday, 26th September 2016 – Love wild flower gardening at Adderbury Lakes
Dear Members, Wild flower gardening at Adderbury Lakes on Saturday, 24th September 2016 WI Wild flower gardening at Adderbury Lakes on Saturday 24th September, with members of the Lakes Working Party who were busy pruning and running a bonfire for dead plant material. The aroma of drifting wood smoke was everywhere, the bright sunshine warming everyone, combating that early autumn hint of a cold wind. It was all great fun ! Our two beds were still doing well so I tidied and applied my hoe to the bed beneath the overhanging trees which have developed less wellbecause of tree cover – the ox-eye daisies are doing well. Our main bed was somewhat choked with grass and thistles and twisted stems of ox-eye so a quick tidy-up was all that could be done. I shall return on Tuesday for another session to tidy-up and admire our flowers – the ox-eye daisy, selfheal plants and the red and green berries of deadly nightshade. Our white campion flower has gone but hopefully it will return next year. Margaret...
Read MoretheWI Adderbury & District WI – Monday, 26th September 2016 – Love GWS wild flower gardening at KHH
Dear Members, Love GWS gardening at KHH today, 22nd September 2016 WI GWS at KHH today, in the rain, clearing leaves, plant material and edging stones and rocks to make the ground ready for autumn seeding. Cleared ground allow seeds to get going and no warm blanket of decaying leaves keeps the earth clean for the next flowering season. And, terribly exciting news to tell you, we have three Corncockle plants just beginning to bloom amongst the corn chamomile and the last remaining pink campions. The plants must have come from this year’s seeds from Kew Royal Botanic Gardens which I grew in my greenhouse into healthy young seedlings and then planted. Just see my pics …. Margaret...
Read MoretheWI Adderbury & District WI – WI GWS Gardening at KHH Facebook Post – 15th September 2016
Dear Members, Love GWS wild flower gardening at Katharine House Hospice xxx Adderbury & District WI 22 hrs · WI GWS at KHH Adderbury for more wild flower gardening – more clearance of dead plant material. some ground clearance and hoeing and just a little seed collection. Real and actual knowledge of how and when to gather in your plant seeds is an art ….we keep trying It’s a good thing each seed pod contains masses of seeds. Our garden’s looking good and ready for seed sowing soon xxx Boost post 16 people reached Like Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry CommentShare 2Adderbury & Twyford Community, Oxfordshire and Richard Hammond Comments Write a comment… Margaret...
Read MoretheWI Adderbury & District WI – WI Wild Flower Gardening Facebook Posting – 9th September 2016
Friday, 9th September 2016 Adderbury & District WI 18 mins · Our WI GWS garden at KHH Adderbury now has cornflowers from the new seedlings planted just a few weeks ago. Clearance of spent plant matter continues and we hope to re-seed with saved seeds shortly, depending on the weather. We look forward to another year of bright wild seed flower blooms in 2017. Here is a photo from 2nd Sept. 2015 when we still had a few poppies in bloom with the corn chamomile. We hope for more poppies in 2017 xx Margaret Halstead xxx WI wild flower gardening at Adderbury Lakes WI wild flower gardening at Adderbury Lakes has temporarily been put on hold due to contractors working on the pathways about the Lakes. Our garden was bright with ox-eye daisies, a few cornflowers and one white campion when we last visited our beds. A few deadly nightshade plants have appeared and we have also hosted one selfheal plant recently. This little gem has also been spotted at other locations too which is very exciting. Earlier in the summer I spotted a lovely blue cranesbill plant and I look forward to its return sometime. Boost post Margaret Halstead...
Read MoretheWI Adderbury & District WI – September Members Meeting Thursday 1st September 2016
Monday 5th September 2016 Dear Members, Our September WI meeting was great fun as we all enjoyed our evening’s visitors, Sharp and Blunt, Adderbury’s own Ladies Morris. They danced several movements for our benefit both outside The Institute and inside, also featuring a dance in which all members could take part if they wished to. Mostly we all did, filling the space with one very long line of dancers who were helped considerably to follow the steps by our lovely guests. They also sang to us, a very jolly song the tune of which must have been familiar to many – “now we are in clover” for we were singing along with the Ladies. We also heard something of the history of both folklorist collectors and musicians Janet Blunt, who collected Adderbury Morris dances and songs and Cecil Sharp, whose interest in traditional song and dance led him to found the English Folk Dance Society in 1911 and published his work English Folk-Song: Some Conclusions in 1907. Sharp and Blunt treated us to …Shepherds Hey, Seven Bells and Bowes xxx Margaret Halstead ps My apologies ladies…I forgot to mention in my original Facebook post that Sharp and Blunt created their group name from folklorist and collectors Janet Sharp of Adderbury and Cecil Sharp who founded in 1911 the English Folk Dance...
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