Feronia

09/04/2026

Ceri Leeder posts:-
Do you love wildflowers?
Andy, a wildflower expert and grower from Llanrwst, will be working in my garden at Ty Mawr Llan, Eglwysbach, tomorrow (April 10th), for a couple of hours...10am-12noon.
He would be delighted to sell you plugs and pots and answer any wildflower queries you may have, or give advice on site, planting etc etc..

20/03/2026

Fantastic to be out on site with Kehoe Countryside planting wildflowers on the trunk road network. It is also very satisfying to see plants you have grown being used.

16/03/2026

I'll be there with over 50 species of native wildflowers.

16/03/2026

850 plugs (300 Field Scabious, 300 Yarrow, 150 Common Bird's-foot Trefoil and 100 Red Campion) and a couple of potted Viper's Bugloss delivered to Powis County Council depot in Welshpool for planting out on trunk road verges.

31/10/2025

Now is a great time to plant wildflowers. The soil is moist and there is enough warmth to help plants establish before the cold of winter.

31/10/2025

Home 'meadow' filmed on 24th August 2025

18/10/2025

Field Scabious filmed on 17th October 2025

26/08/2025

Wildflower field at home filmed on 24th August 2025 with plenty of flowers providing an ongoing resource for pollinators. I'll delay cutting for a few weeks. Livestock was excluded from the field 8 years ago and now has over 50 species of wildflower including those that were already there (eg catsear, greater bird's-foot trefoil) and others that have been planted (eg Devil's-it Scabious, Betony, Saw-wort) or sown (eg Yellow Rattle, Eyebright).

31/07/2025

Today I set up a wildflower display at the National Eisteddfod Wrexham. The planter at the Traffic Wales stand is to promote work enhancing biodiversity on the Trunk Road network in North Wales.

18/07/2025

07/07/2025

I'm just putting the finishing touches to my presentation, hopefully it will be of interest.

NESSIE RAMM: MEADOWS MINI-CONFERENCE
Wednesday 9th July, 2pm
Plantlife's Creative Friend, the artist Nessie Ramm, will give a talk about her work as a contemporary artist and ambassador for the conservation of roadside verges and other unloved spaces. Her artwork conveys the unexpected beauty and diversity of roadside verges and uses repurposed roadsigns to convey a strong conservation ethic.
Nessie will then lead a series of short presentations by other local meadow advocates: Sian Shakespear from Plantlife: saving wild plants will talk about Denbighshire Council's pioneering roadside verge management, and about the way in which Welsh place names reveal past land-uses; Julian Thompson will talk about Pensychnant's experience creating and managing its three wildflower meadows and the ecological changes that we have witnessed; Pitt will talk about his exciting project to restore the meadow on Deganwy Vardre; and Andy Houghton, Feronia, is expert on plug-planting wildflowers to create habitat and conserve species on our highways. He is responsible for all the ox-eye daisies on our verges (well, some of them). If you are interested in meadows, wildflowers and nature conservation, this will be a great afternoon. Afterwards you can wander in Pensychnant's meadows.
Free event. Donations appreciated.
This will also be the last, last chance to see Nessie's artwork before she takes it home to Sussex.

Pensychnant, Sychnant Pass, Conwy, LL32 8BJ