Gnosall Wild Flower Meadow Progress Report
As previously reported, the Gnosall Parish Council granted the Gnosall Best Kept Village (BKV) team permission to create a wild flower patch on the Village Green, near the Gnosall Surgery.
Work started in the spring, preparing the ground and sowing the seeds. But since then we have had a very hot and dry summer. On two occasions Fred Tomkinson, the local farmer, provided a trailer with 2,000 litres of water which the BKV team then sprayed the patch with the aid of watering cans. Also, the Gnosall Fire Brigade used one of their training sessions to spray the patch with more water.
The result was a fabulous growth of thick weeds that overcame the development of the wild flowers! In early September, on the advice of the wild flower seed providers, the BKV team resprayed the patch with weed killer, then remover all dead and dying plants and reseeded the area with new seeds. The wild flower patch has been tidied-up, removing the orange plastic fencing but leaving a simple outline string fence to indicate the area of the patch. A big Thank You to all members of the BKV team and local people for their comments and support.
We now look forward to 2019 when the Cornflowers and Poppies will flower followed by all the perennials in 2020 - a great eye-catching patch of wild flowers, from May through to September.
The range of seeds sown included Corn Poppy, Cornflower, Meadow Buttercup, Musk Mallow, Ox Eye Daisy, Red Campion, Ribworth Plantain, Salad Burnet, Self Heal, White Campion and Yarrow.