Wild Flowers pagesepsitename%% https://chilcotts.farm/tag/wild-flowers/ No longer a working farm. Our home in North Devon Sun, 03 May 2020 10:06:50 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://chilcotts.farm/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cropped-Chilcotts-farm-site-icon-32x32.png Wild Flowers pagesepsitename%% https://chilcotts.farm/tag/wild-flowers/ 32 32 Another May new buds and flowers shall bring https://chilcotts.farm/another-may-new-buds-and-flowers-shall-bring/ https://chilcotts.farm/another-may-new-buds-and-flowers-shall-bring/#respond Sun, 03 May 2020 10:06:39 +0000 https://chilcotts.farm/?p=6187 “Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?” – Charlotte Turner Smith This spring certainly keeps bringing. The weather continues to be fantastic for the bees. The recent rain has been welcome. This enables the plants to draw up water and increase the nectar flow in the flowers. In turn […]

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]]> https://chilcotts.farm/another-may-new-buds-and-flowers-shall-bring/feed/ 0 Ivy Flowers, good for the Bees https://chilcotts.farm/ivy-flowers-good-for-the-bees/ https://chilcotts.farm/ivy-flowers-good-for-the-bees/#respond Tue, 22 Oct 2019 06:29:01 +0000 https://chilcottsfarm.co.uk/?p=3419 Even though October is drawing to a close, on warm days the bees are VERY busy. If you look closely at the ivy, you can see it covered in insects busy at work on the ivy flowers. Not only honey bees, but wasps, flies and bumble bees. All going about their work gathering or consuming […]

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]]> https://chilcotts.farm/ivy-flowers-good-for-the-bees/feed/ 0 This is what I want, I really really want …. https://chilcotts.farm/this-is-what-i-want-i-really-really-want/ https://chilcotts.farm/this-is-what-i-want-i-really-really-want/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2019 21:04:59 +0000 https://chilcottsfarm.co.uk/?p=3189 I have a two acre field, I really want to turn into (revert to?) wildflower meadow. How do you do it? Can anyone help? It seems really complicated and expensive. Done the research over a few years and got the facts, just spent £40 on seed! (mixture of perennial and annual from Pictorial Meadows #PictorialMeadows) […]

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