The Big Bellan of Treflach

The Big Bellan of Treflach

by Andrew Steele
  Big Bellan Covert is found at the southern end of Gibraltar Lane.  It is an outcrop of rock over limestone plates, the remnants of the last ice ...
The Anthills of Treflach

The Anthills of Treflach

by Andrew Steele
    There are three types of common ant in the UK. They are the black ant, the red ant - that you will have noticed more as it stings, and the yel...
The Square Nine of Treflach

The Square Nine of Treflach

by Andrew Steele
  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

The Daffodils of Treflach

by Andrew Steele
‘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

The Field Maple of Treflach

by Andrew Steele
  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

The New Wildlife Corridors of Treflach

by Andrew Steele
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

The Mountain of Treflach

by Andrew Steele
View the video here 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

The Drays of Treflach

by Andrew Steele
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

The Tree pollen of Treflach

by Andrew Steele
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

The "Folium Retro Mori" of Treflach

by Andrew Steele
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

The Great British Friesian of Treflach

by Andrew Steele
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

The Gateways of Treflach

by Andrew Steele
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...