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God's Acre - The churchyard at St Mary's

Over the past few years you may have noticed some small areas of the churchyard have been left unmown during the spring and summer. This has been a positive attempt to promote the growth of wild flowers and encourage a greater variety of wildlife within the churchyard area. The existing variety of habitat is very good. Holly trees and Ivy covered tree stumps offer ideal conditions for a range of invertebrates.

For example, caterpillars of the Holly Blue butterfly feed on Holly flowers in their spring generation and on the flowers of Ivy during the autumn generation - the only British butterfly whose main foodplant changes through the seasons. Grass areas left uncut have produced a good number of Primroses this year, and we hope that the striking Orange Hawkweed flowers will appear again later in the season in the area under the wall of the old School (now the Cogges Church Centre). Perhaps with continued care and management other wild flowers will appear!

So that we continue to enhance this natural beauty of the churchyard and to comply with our Churchyard Regulations (posted in the Church porch) please remove all artificial flowers from the churchyard. Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

Lawrence Bee and Gill Curwood
Churchwardens, St Mary's, Cogges

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