Friends of Lye Valley: Seed sowing
The Friends of Lye Valley have been collecting limestone-loving wildflower seed from Milham Ford Nature Park to sow on Rock Edge, Magdalen Quarry, and the Slade entrance to the Lye Valley which we aim to return to limestone meadowland. Yellow rattle is particularly important as it is semi-parasitic on grass, weakening it and allowing the wild flowers to flourish once more.
Seed Saturday – collecting seed and explaining what we are doing and why
Drying wet seed collected in the rain
Scarifying the ground and sowing seed on Rock Edge
Yellow rattle