I thought I would take a picture of the meadow prior to having the main patches of nettle, dock and thistle topped.
It looks great although the issues of nettles, docks and thistles need to be addressed before they take over. Hopefully by cutting the main clumps the grass seeds will colonise the ground covered by problem weeds for next season.
The meadow is also having a good wildlife effect and there are starting to be significant number of butterflies. There are more ringlets than I normally see and countless meadow browns and tortoiseshells.
