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September and October News |
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This will be the last news we write for a while. The nursery closes at the end of October for the winter so we’ll only occasionally update the page rather than doing it every month, until next year.
As you can see from the picture at the top we’ve had two new additions to the team. Maisy and Jinty, two of our female Alpacas, gave birth within a few days of each other. Jinty gave birth to a male cria (baby alpaca) on Sept 28th (pictured below left, with mum) and Maisy, Jinty’s Daughter, gave birth to a female cria on Oct 7th (pictured below right). They are both full of life chasing the chickens and Guinea fowl around. As yet we haven’t named either of them.
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As the nursery winds down for the year we are already making plans for the 2009 season. As all our regular customers know we are always developing the site and next year will be no exception.
We are currently in the process of creating a wildflower meadow. During the Spring and Summer it will be filled with a variety of native wildflowers, then grazed by our Sheep and Alpacas during the Autumn and Winter months. We have already planted quite a few of the plants and will be adding more early next year. We hope to open it next Spring, when visitors will be able to wander through the meadow, learning more about these native plants and some of the wildlife they support.
We are also making plans to try and have The Barn Garden open all year round for visitors to the nursery. We currently only open it during August and September, mainly because most of the plants are for late summer colour and (the main reason) we never get a chance to weed it until after the show season. This year however, we’ve added new beds with a greater variety of plants, flowering from spring right through until the end of the year. And we will try to keep more on top of the weeds with mulch in the spring - although I can’t guarantee there won’t be the odd nettle or two about the place!
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