Some areas around the meadow and strips of hedge bottom are left for the later flowering summer flowers (the main wildflower meadow is a spring meadow so cut in late July). The flowers (such as ox-eye daisy, common agrimony, hemp agrimony, borage, mallow and feverfew) have set seed, so these areas have been cut with the trusty Allen Scythe.
The cuttings have been pitchforked on top of 2 year old wood piles in the Coppice. I am hoping that this will give a layered environment with damp rotten wood at the bottom, then a dry lattice of dead branches, finally topped off with the protective ‘roof’ of straw like cuttings:
This looks like it will create a great hibernation place - sheltered with a variety of environments.
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