Jeans Orchard 2458

Thundridge Community Orchard

Magnificent Seven

July 22, 2024

 

The ‘Magnificent Seven’ orchard team did great job on Saturday morning cutting, strimming, weeding and clearing a LOT MORE grass, followed by coffee, biscuits and homemade cake (lovely). Everything looks better now and it’s nice to able to see the newish fruit trees not being overgrown. Getting a few more bees and butterflies, although not easy to photograph the butterflies!

Pond looking better after a bit of weed clearing, ‘Pickerel Weed’ and ‘Loosestrife’ flowering well. More ‘Common Darter Dragonflies’ emerging, had to save one female after finding her close to the waters edge with ‘Duckweed’ preventing two of her wings from separating which stopped her flying (see photo below)!

Quick look around orchard after finishing.