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...
The Ellis Oaks of Treflach
These two oak tree at Ty Tegwych (Fair House in Welsh) are 135 years old. The one is a Sessile or Irish Oak, the other is a Common or English Oa...
The Benchmark of Treflach
This time of year they say spring travels at 1 mph during daylight hours starting in the south and moving north slowed only by altitude, which on ...
The Quarries of Treflach
Think of quarries and Dolgoch, Treflach and Whitehaven come to mind, however the landscape is pox marked by a cottage industry that was a necessity...
The Leaf Drifts of Treflach
As a child I remember coming down this road on many occasions coming across old men with containers and bags collecting these leaves for their allotments before the invention of garden centres with all their available composts...
The Yule Log of Treflach
Picture credit: Pinterest
Grandad Steele, born in 1893, used to have an old saying – “you get two warms with logs. The first when you cut it and t...
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