Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Restoring Our Wildflower Meadow on Telscombe Tye

The Millenium Seed Bank at Wakehurst Place has created a new project to collect seed from wildflower meadows to preserve them for posterity.

Our very own John Carden from Friends of the Tye was interviewed on BBC Radio Sussex today to talk about the work that we did last year to seed Telscombe Tye with wildflowers.  The feature starts around 1:00 and John is on about 1:30.

Listen again - BBC Radio Sussex - Sussex Breakfast

We'll be holding another Working Horse event on September 24th to carry on this work and plant even more seed on the Tye.  Look out for further details locally and on the Friends of the Tye website.

Some of the seeds planted for:

Ox-eye daisies
Red and White Rampion
Yarrow
Self-heal
Meadow buttercup
Common vetch
Black medick
Black Knapweed

along with several grass species.

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