The children were out standing in their field

The Hope Garden is incredibly fortunate to have funding from Local Places for Nature to cover some workshops with Ysgol Cilgerran. The first one was Wildlife Identification, with ecologist Yusef Samari from WWBIC, the West Wales wildlife recording centre.

Big fat dandelion

• Plant a big fat Dandelion front and centre. Edible, native wild flower, great for pollinators.
• Bugle, Yarrow, Meadowsweet. I will start adding these to spreadsheet
• Cheap, repurposed agricultural water trough as central water feature? Idea is to open source plans and costings, and make garden affordable for other community projects.

Flowers for gardener

• Flowers for Denise XR Gardener
  • Ramsons
  • Rough Hawkbit
  • Maiden Pink
  • Welsh Poppy
  • Foxglove
  • Red Valerian
• Welsh names for plants
  • Botanic Garden Wales list
  • Wicipedia Cymraeg
  • Y Bywiadur
  • Plant-Lore, Welsh plant names
  • Welsh Academy Dictionary
• Trust The People’s Community Assembly Manual
• Hinge brackets to lock benches to ground level brackets. Pics to follow.
• Woodland path, green wall. Ivy wall, grown on relatively lightweight wire, portable. Ferns? For the shady back.
• Imperfection at the centre, like a Persian rug
• Promote diversity of species, cultures & languages
• More plant ideas
  • Honeysuckle (flowers July)
  • Hawthorn
  • Hazel (cultivar? nuts forming in July)
  • Holly (pruned?)
  • Valerian
  • Pennywort

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