{"id":2036,"date":"2019-09-06T13:01:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmarthenshiremeadows.com\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2019-09-06T13:01:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:01:38","slug":"green-hay-at-the-national-botanic-garden-of-wales-update-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/2019\/09\/06\/green-hay-at-the-national-botanic-garden-of-wales-update-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Hay at the National Botanic Garden of Wales &#8211; update post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This report follows on from the visit by CMG members to see the results of the green hay experiment at the NBGW (see previous post on the blog):\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"5ffqgnBXue\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carmarthenshiremeadows.com\/2019\/07\/25\/visit-to-the-national-botanic-garden-of-wales-to-see-results-of-green-hay-experiment\/\">Visit to the National Botanic Garden of Wales to see results of Green Hay&nbsp;Experiment<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Visit to the National Botanic Garden of Wales to see results of Green Hay&nbsp;Experiment&#8221; &#8212; Carmarthenshire Meadows Group  -  Gr\u0175p Dolydd Sir Gaerfyrddin\" src=\"https:\/\/carmarthenshiremeadows.com\/2019\/07\/25\/visit-to-the-national-botanic-garden-of-wales-to-see-results-of-green-hay-experiment\/embed\/#?secret=GYeeDCpbrX#?secret=5ffqgnBXue\" data-secret=\"5ffqgnBXue\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An opportunity for us to collect some freshly cut hay from a Waun Las meadow was arranged by Bruce Langridge (Head of Interpretation at the Garden) and the Waun Las farm manager.\u00a0\u00a0Bruce let us know the day before the fields were to be cut for hay, and sent a map of the fields and how to get to them.\u00a0\u00a0This was circulated to all CMG members, and anyone intending to turn up next day after the cutting was finished at about 2pm was asked to email Bruce to say they were coming.\u00a0\u00a0Bruce also posted this on Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Greater butterfly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/orchid?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#orchid<\/a> seedpods have ripened in time for a green hay cut <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/walesbotanic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@walesbotanic<\/a> tomorrow. The green hay will be spread onto a freshly cut species-poor pasture on Waun las NNR. Members of Carmarthenshire Meadows Group will also be collecting bagfuls for their own meadows <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y0KV8ChyzZ\">pic.twitter.com\/y0KV8ChyzZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bruce Langridge (@BruceLangridge1) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BruceLangridge1\/status\/1168553503561867265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the event, as is often the case (learnt from bitter experience) the weather forecast changed so on the day the rain arrived after the hay cut had begun.\u00a0\u00a0So, the cutting was stopped after one field, however Bruce contacted all those who were coming to tell them which field had been cut, and how to get there, and he put a sign on the gate showing us where to go.10 CMG members were able to collect some and take it home to spread on their own fields.\u00a0 Time will tell whether any new species appear on the receptor fields.\u00a0 But it can do no harm, and it was very little effort.\u00a0 We think it is definitely well worth doing, and as Bruce said in an email afterwards: \u201cI passionately believe that this is the sort of thing a national botanic garden should be doing, so it&#8217;s great to have your support.\u201d It\u2019s also fits exactly with what our meadows group wants to be doing, so we thank Bruce for all his help in setting this up.\u00a0 We hope to have a similar arrangement in subsequent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This report follows on from the visit by CMG members to see the results of the green hay experiment at the NBGW (see previous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-meadow-flowers","category-meadow-management","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/185.53.59.222\/~carmsmeadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}