If you’ve enjoyed a break from the lawn during ‘No Mow May’ but ended up with ‘just grass’, then we hope in this episode to convince you of the beauty and importance of grasses in their own right for both humans and wildlife. We also take a look at a stunning plant often found amongst the tall grass, the ruby jewel that is Sanguisorba officinalis.
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Sightings
Patchwork leaf-cutter bee – Bumblebee Conservation Trust
Wood Pigeon Bird Facts | Columba Palumbus – The RSPB
News
Orchards for Schools free orchard and hedgerow packs (treecouncil.org.uk)
Free Trees for Schools and Communities – Woodland Trust
Grasses overview
Check out Sarah (aka Mighty Moth Girl (@MothMighty) / Twitter) giving a fantastic begginers botany class on grasses here: Classes for Grasses Episode 1 – Grass Structure and Anatomy – YouTube
Grass: An introduction – Lizzie Harper
Grass ID – Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland (bsbi.org)
Grasses guide – Field Studies Council (field-studies-council.org)
Monocot – Definition and Examples of Monocotyledon | Biology Dictionary
Grass species
Microsoft Word – TEP Festuca rubra.doc (bsbi.org)
Microsoft Word – TEP Agrostis capillaris.doc (bsbi.org)
Microsoft Word – TEP Brachypodium sylvaticum.doc (bsbi.org)
Briza media – BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine (gardenersworld.com)
Sanguisorba officinalis
Sanguisorba officinalis | Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora (brc.ac.uk)
Great burnet | The Wildlife Trusts
Sanguisorba officinalis L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science
Propagation, cultivation and varieties
Sanguisorba officinalis | great burnet/RHS Gardening
Sanguisorba ‘Tanna’ | burnet ‘Tanna’/RHS Gardening
Sanguisorba officinalis ‘Martin’s Mulberry’ | great burnet ‘Martin’s Mulberry’/RHS Gardening
Sanguisorba ‘Pink Tanna’ | /RHS Gardening
Sanguisorba officinalis ‘Lemon Splash’ (v) | great burnet ‘Lemon Splash’/RHS Gardening
Next Book Club
Making a Wildflower Meadow by Pam Lewis
ISBN: 9780711236103
Making a Wildflower Meadow from Summerfield Books
Making a Wildflower Meadow : Pam Lewis, : 9780711236103 : Blackwell’s (blackwells.co.uk)
Ellies Wellies Organic Gardening 