Seed collecting for other wildlife sites
A large collection of seed has also gone to Aston’s Eyot and the Kidneys. Google photos - Picasa archive
Mary-Jo Drew (photo right) takes care of seed that needs some processing before it is sown. Some has to be air-dried thoroughly and the seeds rubbed out of the pods. The seed pods of bird's foot trefoil and meadow cranesbill eventually explode and release seed. Sometimes the large pod fragments need to be sieved off to get relatively pure seed, which makes sowing easier.
A large collection of seed has also gone to Aston’s Eyot and the Kidneys. Google photos - Picasa archive
Mary-Jo Drew (photo right) takes care of seed that needs some processing before it is sown. Some has to be air-dried thoroughly and the seeds rubbed out of the pods. The seed pods of bird's foot trefoil and meadow cranesbill eventually explode and release seed. Sometimes the large pod fragments need to be sieved off to get relatively pure seed, which makes sowing easier.
1 August 2015 - for slideshow of photos by Judy Webb, click here.
Judy reported that a 'huge haul' was collected. She took some to offer to those attending the Friends of Lye Valley AGM on 3 August. Seed of common knapweed, red clover, meadow cranesbill, great burnet, oxeye daisy, cowslip, bird’s foot trefoil, yellow rattle and lady’s bedstraw was collected by visitors for St Clements Church Marston Road, RSPB July meadow on Otmoor, Rock Edge Nature Reserve (by members of Friends of Lye Valley), as well as for a local resident's own garden. Included in the photos are some local people enquiring about what the seed collectors were doing.
Judy reported that a 'huge haul' was collected. She took some to offer to those attending the Friends of Lye Valley AGM on 3 August. Seed of common knapweed, red clover, meadow cranesbill, great burnet, oxeye daisy, cowslip, bird’s foot trefoil, yellow rattle and lady’s bedstraw was collected by visitors for St Clements Church Marston Road, RSPB July meadow on Otmoor, Rock Edge Nature Reserve (by members of Friends of Lye Valley), as well as for a local resident's own garden. Included in the photos are some local people enquiring about what the seed collectors were doing.
Staff from Oxford Botanic Garden collecting seed for sowing in Harcourt Arboretum helped by Judy Webb - 29 July 2015 - for slideshow click here
Despite steady rain, Judy Webb and Heather Armitage collected seed for sowing in Rock Edge Nature Reserve - 26 July 2015
Pupils from Windmill Primary School, Headington, visited the Park on 14 July 2015 to collect seed for their Magdalen Quarry Wildflower Project
For a slideshow of photos of the children's visit, click here.
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For a slideshow of photos of the children's visit, click here.
To see information (when added), click on the white circle with the 'i' at top right of screen. Click on the ‘X’ to return to full-screen view.