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from the Stroud Valleys Project.
I hope
you like the picture. These flowers are at the bottom of the Bisley Road
Cemetery and were planted by Stroud Valleys Project working with Stroud Town
Council. They were planted in late Spring and look at what a beautiful display
we got. Now is the time to think about Autumn sowings.
To help
you, Donald McIntyre from the native seed company, Emorsgate Seeds, has kindly
agreed to come and give us an illustrated talk and PowerPoint presentation at
the Lansdown Hall on Saturday 7th September, doors open 10.30 for an
11am start. Tickets cost £6 in advance and £7 on the door. We hope that everyone will
walk up to the Festival of Nature afterwards (which is a free event) and sample
the wonderful food that is on offer there.
Donald
McIntyre was born and grew up in this area so the Stroud Hills and Valleys are
close to his heart. He founded Emorsgate seeds to sell native wildflower
seed to the landscape industry and to gardeners. Emorsgate started off
with 1 acre of land and they now have 130 acres.
In addition
this is also about celebrating 25 years of Stroud Valleys Project and to do
this we want to make, manage or monitor 25 wildflower sites across the District.
We want to start the conversation about how this will happen so we hope this
event will be a great starting point for us to be more involved in this sort of
work. Please, do forward this email or if you can put up some posters near you,
please let us know and we will print some off for you.
The Talk
is Aimed at: people
who live in Stroud District who already have an interest in gardening and who
want to find out how to encourage wild flowers in their garden. Also, landscape
gardeners, jobbing gardeners, local garden designers – I hope there will be
something there for everyone
Topics
to be covered: Why wild
flowers are important. Their decline over recent decades. Some background about
Donald McIntyre and Emorsgate Seeds. How you can start by monitoring what you
have in order to make the most of our floral heritage in this area. How
to note your wildflowers. How easy is it to grow wild flowers in Stroud? Is the
soil suitable? What special measures might people need to put in place? If
you’ve only got a small garden, what’s the best way to start? Which wild
flowers flourish in Stroud? The St Catherine’s seed mixture. How to manage your
wildflowers for a display year on year How can people get more information? Some
seeds and books will be available for sale at the event
For further
information, contact Julie
Wickham.
Stroud
Valleys Project
8 Threadneedle Street
Stroud
Gloucestershire
GL5 1AF
tel. 01453 753358
www.stroudvalleysproject.org
8 Threadneedle Street
Stroud
Gloucestershire
GL5 1AF
tel. 01453 753358
www.stroudvalleysproject.org
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