The first heritage apple tree was planted in the wildflower meadow at St Mary’s School as part of its 150th anniversary celebrations.
Later in the year we will plant more apple trees. If you’d like to get involved, please follow this link
This is part of the project developed by Wild Amersham with St Mary’s School in Old Amersham to turn part of the school playing field into a wildflower meadow and heritage orchard.
We helped the School gain generous funding for this project from the Chilterns AONB’s Orchard project.
When St Mary’s School stopped mowing part of its playing field, it had about ten species
of flowering plant in it; yet within three weeks of not mowing, the unmown part of the field
had grown into a spectacular wildflower meadow with over 60 species of native
wildflowers – no sowing, just no mowing! The meadow will be regularly monitored for
wildflowers and will be mown in Autumn. We will be holding wildflower monitoring and
scything workshops later this year – if you are interested in attending these, please fill out
this form.
In June Wild Amersham organised a lovely wildflower workshop for three classes of
school children at St Mary’s School. With Karen van Oostrum, a botanist educator.
The children learned about different habitats, how plants transport water and plant anatomy. It
was lovely seeing the children enjoying the beautiful meadow grown by the school as you
can see in these photos.