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by dillstew
Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:48 pm
Forum: One Person's Weed, Another's Wild Plant...?
Topic: Rabbits
Replies: 5
Views: 5461

Re: Rabbits

Thank you Amy, what a lot of helpful information. I am in a dillemma because I was wanting to encourage wildlife, but then wildlife came in a way I wasn't expecting. i already had them last year, but not in the meadow section, as far as i was aware, but they had created short burrows in my flower be...
by dillstew
Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:57 pm
Forum: One Person's Weed, Another's Wild Plant...?
Topic: Rabbits
Replies: 5
Views: 5461

Rabbits

I started a meadow last year and I thought I had made a good start. It is very rural where I live and the ground behind my house where the meadow is, is part of a former diary and not fenced in. Recently the local rabbit population has increased. Over the years numbers have been low because of disea...
by dillstew
Sat Feb 20, 2021 10:24 am
Forum: All about Garden Meadows
Topic: How to Grow Wildflowers
Replies: 4
Views: 5611

Re: How to Grow Wildflowers

I started a meadow last year, It is a patch of land that used to be the route to a milking parlour twenty years ago. Until last year the grass was cut regularly and removed. I left it to grow last year and a number of flowers appeared, including one orchid. I bought a scythe and cut in late summer (...