The churchyard has started slowly this year, really due to the very wet spring (if we had one at all!).
Nevertheless, we had a good show of bulbs earlier and colour is now spreading everywhere to the south of the church building.
One problem was that the Flower Meadow under the Holly tree didn’t self-set this year. Last year seed that had dropped from the year before meant that there was nothing much to do to get a mass of colourful wild flowers. This year, however, the plot became over whelmed with grass, probably because the dropped seed rotted in the ground due to the wet, didn’t germinate, or rotted after germinating. As a result, we have cleared the plot and started again by sowing new wild flower seed. We look forward to colourful wild flowers in the months to come.
Otherwise, we have tidied up a bit to produce a tranquil space. Indeed, a lady runner from Witchford today told me that she runs from Witchford to our church and back so that she can appreciate the look of the churchyard and experience its tranquillity
Andrew Finch
