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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

When lightning occurs it creates nitrogen oxide.  When it rains it dissolves in the soil making dark lush green grass.  Pictured is a local tree s...

  Pictured are dressed stonework, the remains of what was a pound for stray cattle in a roadside hedge – old ordinance survey maps show its positi...