Meadow
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At one point the volunteers decided to grow some wheat to grind. A section of the mill field was ploughed up and wheat planted. Once this experiment was done with, Roger Ashton and Bob Potts went to great lengths to restore part of the field, as far as possible, to its original "meadow" ecosystem. A strip of the field running most of the way beside the East hedge was restocked with native primroses, native bluebells and other native species that had inhabited that space before the wheat-growing experiment. A dog rose was either planted, or planted itself, with another shrub to provide its structural support. Around this dog rose, the family of Mary Coote scattered her ashes in March 2008. The dog rose was health and flowering well in 2020. In 2021, volunteers working on installing the village pump decided to grub it up.
There are a lot of photographs of plants growing in the meadow. Identification is on-going. Species, growing in the meadow, with at least some partial identification include the following.
- Bird's Foot Trefoil
- Bluebell
- Buttercup (Ranunculus)
- Dandelion (Taraxacum)
- Dog Rose (Rosa canina)
- Ox Eye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
- Plantain
- Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)
- Self Heal (Prunella vulgaris)
- Thistle
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