The Square Nine of Treflach
Pictured the last 3 apples stored over the winter of an old dessert/cooking apple first catalogued in 1832 that is well suited to wet upland con...
The Daffodils of Treflach
‘I wandered lonely as a cloud - That floats on high over vales and hills -When all at once I saw a crowd - A host of golden daffodils’, was penned...
The Field Maple of Treflach
Pictured is the only native Maple species of the UK which usually is only just a hedgerow bush. It attracts aphids and their predators, while ma...
The New Wildlife Corridors of Treflach
Pictured is a new wood planted at Treflach Farm adjacent an old water mill. It’s a mixture of broadleaf native species including silver birch, ro...
The Mountain of Treflach
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Sweeney, adjacent to Treflach is famous for its mountain. In the accompanying video (click the link here) you can see the moun...
The Drays of Treflach
Pictured is a local tree in which a squirrel has spent the summer playing. With reference to The Treflach Squirrel blog post (11.02.20), squirrel...
The Tree pollen of Treflach
One of the most satisfying things to watch in nature is to sit and observe bees returning to their hive laden down with pollen on their back legs....
The "Folium Retro Mori" of Treflach
In the 1970s, we lost Dutch Elms from our landscape, but 50 years on it flourishes in our hedges so long as they are kept trimmed – older growth s...
The Great British Friesian of Treflach
Two thousand years ago Hippocrates stated all disease begins in the gut… well you are what you eat what they eat. They being the animals that gr...
The Gateways of Treflach
Pictured is the oldest wooden gate in the district. It was hung in 1967, bought from W.H .Thomas that had a saw mill in Oswestry on Salop Road whe...
The Pennywort of Treflach
I’m not normally one for picking wild flowers as I prefer them to be left to fulfil their natural life cycle, and I believe them to be more beauti...
The Weather of Treflach
This picture was taken just over a month ago showing thick moss in a local north facing hedge. From July 2023 to mid April 2024 it has been lik...
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