The grass, including a lot of wildflower stems was cut by our friends from the South Glos council workforce. Now the Friends of filnore Woods volunteers have to rake it off to stop it fertilising the ground and encouraging the coarser more dominant plants to overwhelm the hayfield flowers we want to encourage.
It is raked into windrows to make it easier to locate and pick up with pitchforks.
So not so many thistles, nettles, brambles, greater willowherb and hogweed.
Hopefully more cowslips, coltsfoot, lady's smock, red campion, hop trefoil, hedge woundwort, yellow vetchling, tufted vetch, goatsbeard, centaury, yellow wort, birdsfoot trefoil, lady's bedstraw, knapweed, scabious, meadowsweet, perforate st johns wort, betony, self heal and the rest.
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