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![]() Town Green, with germander speedwells
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![]() Town Green, with buttercups |
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![]() Cllr. Tom Barton Owen inserting stake and information sheet (see right) on Town Green |
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![]() Information sheet in place |
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Forge Green | |||
![]() Residents Jill Heale, Dana Amlin and Hector help search Forge Green for a suitable location for the information sheet |
Online aids to identifying wild flowers:Phillips, R., Wild Flowers of BritainPlantSnapPlantNet |
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![]() Cllr. Tom Barton Owen inserting stake and information sheet amongst the daffodils on Forge Green
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Information Sheets: particular thanks to:
Emma CophamLynne HartlandJenny Loganand other volunteers, residents and Parish Councillors |
Churchyard | |||
![]() “The Children’s Church Council have encouraged wild flowers and grasses and built homes for birds and insects and mammals. Look out for more blackboards.” |
![]() “Summer Meadow” – The small summer meadow has been enlarged to encourage further spread of harebells and other wild flowers.
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![]() Display of germander speedwells
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![]() “Our churchyard is nurturing wildlife. Please wander our wiggly paths and you might spot the residents of our houses and hotels.” |
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![]() Wild Clary (rare wild flower) |
![]() Churchyard grasses, Summer 2021 (photo: Liz Brooker) – The churchyard grasses include: fescue; red fescue; common rye; couch grass; cock’s foot grass; meadow foxtail; barren brome grass; chalk false brome; wood melick grass; and yorkshire fog. |
With thanks to: Liz BrookerKate HuntsmanAnne-Marie MelloyKirsten NewbleAmanda Palmerand theHildersham Children’s Church Council
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(Photos: JMK, unless indicated) |