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Category: Newsletters, Sue's Musings, What's New Tags: elton john, Fruit, garden, Health, nature, newsletter, Spring, Vegetables
Continuing our series of short videos so that you can see a little bit of what you might have seen if we were able to open. After we purchased the woodland and riverbank, we cleared years of fallen branches, matted with groves of bramble, all along the bank. Without any planting, we now have a few rapidly growing patches of bluebells, establishing themselves with glee in the shade of the hazels. The… Read More
Just a few sounds for you today. A somewhat uncommunicative owl from last night as we had a quick stroll to check the forest barriers were locked – essential travel!! …and a much more tuneful Dawn Chorus from early this morning. With virtually no planes and no traffic, it’s lovely to hear the birds as they should be.
Category: Gallery, Living Green, What's New Tags: birdsong, dawn chorus, nature, owls, Spring
Continuing our current video posts (or should that be vlogs?), here’s a little snippet of one part of our river, before and after Storm Dennis. We’ll be continuing to vlog this and other aspects of the garden over the next months, so you can see the best of the garden from your armchair. For example, just along the bank from here will be carpeted in bluebells in May, and we wouldn’t want… Read More
Category: Gallery, What's New Tags: Grwyne Fawr, nature, power of water, Storm Dennis, water, weather
Well, it’s certainly all happening down at the pond. The wildlife are almost taking over. After the millions of tadpoles came the newts, popping up to the surface for a breath of air then diving back down. There seem to be more great diving beetles this year including some smaller ones which I take to be babies, or more probably something altogether different. Then a couple of weeks ago we started to… Read More
Category: Living Green, What's New Tags: birth, damselfly, dragonfly, natural pond, nature, organic, pondlife, wildlife
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Britt Willoughby Dyer – photographer
Liz Knight – Forage Fine Foods
Sarah Price – garden designer and writer
Mick Petts – landscape artist and pond builder
Some info about Gardening for Health
Tourist info for the Crickhowell area
Brecon Beacons National Park Authority
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