{"id":407,"date":"2011-07-27T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsu.eventmedialabs.com\/?p=407"},"modified":"2015-07-13T01:19:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T00:19:08","slug":"walking-in-wildflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/walking-in-wildflowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking among Irish Wildflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When did you last walk through a field of wildflowers?<\/p>\n
I’m searching through my memory bank and can only think of a handful of occasions that I personally have (and I’m a country gal), yet they’ve been around since neolithic times, so Sandro Cafolla of Design by Nature (www.wildflowers.ie)<\/a>\u00a0was explaining to us today.<\/p>\n From their origin to ground preparation, weeds, growing conditions, identification and the lack of support to growers, Sandro passionately \u00a0shared some of his vast knowledge on growing crops of herbs and wildflowers to an interested group of us near Urlingford in Tipperary.<\/p>\n Sadly many native Irish wildflowers are now extinct or on the endangered list mostly as a result of weedkillers, farm machinery or heavy cropping. From corncockle to corn chamomile, wild cornflower and scarlet pimpernell – many of us will never see these flowers growing wild again.<\/p>\n