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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: David Paterson on July 15, 2015, 13:48:09
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Our weather continues cool and changeable but it's possible to see that summer is here. This is the gate from our garden into a small field which we keep as a wildflower meadow.
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Beautiful place to live
Is there a chance you could include the botton of the gate and fence also? Seems a bit short
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Lovely atmosphere, I want to walk through the gate into the meadow.
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Very nicely done Dave. You're not having the best of weather up there are you!
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Dave, is your meadow allowed to grow unmanaged or is the grass cut in summer?
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Thank you all for your kind comments.
Elsa - I did also shoot it as you suggest, but I preferred being closer in on the honeysuckle.
Mike - if 14degC, cloudy with occasional rain makes a summer day, then we've had a glorious summer.
Bjørn J - you are welcome to come and walk through that gate any time you like!
Bjørn R - the field is managed - cut once a year, at the end of August. We have experimented with non-management and with burning off the dry grass in very early spring. Of the three alternatives, non-management is least satisfactory; burning is best but the field is bounded by blackthorn hedges approx. 6-8m tall and 10-15m deep, and we were in some danger of losing those when we tried burning. To burn successfully, we need a dry spell of at least 5 days, in March; some wind - not too strong - in the quadrant NW to NE; and about half-a-dozen helpers, armed with brooms, to protect those hedges. It's too tall an order, however if you have an alternative strategy in mind, I'd be interested.
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A very pleasing gate and a well captured shot. To my eye it is all about the gate and vine ... I think a tighter, square-ish might crop work well. (But I'm into tight images.)
As to management ... how about goats once or twice a year? (Out here you can rent a flock of goats for "weeding".)
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Thank you all for your kind comments.
Bjørn J - you are welcome to come and walk through that gate any time you like!
Thanks Dave, Scotland is one of the places I have always wanted to visit. Including Skye. And the Hebrides. And maybe the remote St. Kilda :)