Dear Plantlife Cymru supporter,

Since the New Year we’ve been reviewing some of our projects and making plans for the months ahead. You can find out more about our work in the Brecon Beacons below and also catch up on how the CENNAD lichen apprentices are getting on. Plus, we’ve just launched our brand spanking new website. Read on to find out more...

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The Brecon Beacons are known for their majestic peaks, but did you know the sweeping slopes are important habitats for rare plants? A collection of 29 cliff faces and scree slopes have been identified as an Important Plant Area (IPA) and are home to rare hawkweeds, whitebeams and other alpine gems such as purple saxifrage.

Many of these cliff and scree slopes can also contain invasive non-native plants which can crowd out the native flora by reducing the light and space. Species such as cotoneaster, cherry laurel and holm oak have been recorded in the area and have begun to affect the biodiversity.

Thanks to funding from the Brecon Beacons Trust and the Wales Government, we have been able to survey 22 of the sites within the IPA in 2016 and the results have just come in. Thankfully non-native species were only found in five sites and most of these are individual plants that can easily be controlled. However, one site at Darren Fawr, north of Merthyr Tydfil, is very badly infested with cotoneaster. Darren Fawr is also a difficult site as much of it is unstable scree and small quarries which are hard to access.

Over the next few months we will be applying for funding to remove the invasive plants on all the five sites where they were found. The work needed on Darren Fawr could take between 3 – 5 years to complete but making a start now means native plants should begin to find a stronger foothold.

You can read more about this Important Plant Area by clicking the button below.

Flowers are a wonderful gift for Mother’s Day, so why not adopt a beautiful wild flower for your mum or someone special, and help conserve wild flowers at the same time? We have a gorgeous range of wild flowers to adopt and the recipient will receive a stunning postcard, information booklet and certificate about their flower. And to make it even more of a treat, if you quote ‘Mother’s Day’ in the ‘Special instructions for seller’ box when you checkout on our online shop, then we’ll also include a free Neal’s Yard Remedies Bee Lovely hand cream worth £10.
 
View our range of wild flowers for adoption here.

Ers dechrau’r flwyddyn buom yn adolygu rhai o'n prosiectau a gwneud cynlluniau ar gyfer y misoedd i ddod. Gallwch gael gwybod mwy am ein gwaith ar Fannau Brycheiniog isod a hefyd yn dal i fyny ar sut mae prentisiaid cen CENNAD yn dod ymlaen. Rydym hefyd newydd lansio ein gwefan newydd sbon danlli. Darllenwch ymlaen i gael gwybod mwy...

Eleni, wrth i ni nesáu at y tymor tyfu, rydym yn anelu at gael mwy o gynghorau i ymuno. Mae llawer yn ymwybodol o werth ochrau’r ffyrdd ac wedi cyflwyno cyfundrefnau torri gwair i annog blodau gwyllt, ond mewn ardaloedd cymharol fach yn unig maent yn gwneud hyn. Rydym yn ymgyrchu ar i gynghorau nid yn unig gydnabod pwysigrwydd ochrau’r ffyrdd ond hefyd i’w gwarchod a’u hadfer ar eu holl ffyrdd.
 
Felly mae’n hanfodol ein bod yn dal i bwyso ac yn lledaenu’r gair. Gallwch lofnodi’r ddeiseb a’i rhannu gyda’ch cyfeillion ar ein gwefan. 
 

Rhowch rodd o flodau gwyllt ar Sul y Mamau

Mae blodau yn anrheg gwych ar gyfer Sul y Mamau, felly pam na wnewch chi fabwysiadu blodau gwyllt hardd ar gyfer eich mam, neu rywun arbennig, a helpu i warchod blodau gwyllt ar yr un pryd. Mae gennym amrywiaeth hyfryd o flodau gwyllt i fabwysiadu a bydd y derbynnydd yn derbyn cerdyn post trawiadol, llyfryn gwybodaeth a thystysgrif am y blodyn a ddewiswyd gennych. Ac i wneud pethau hyd yn oed yn well, os ydych yn dyfynnu 'Sul y Mamau' yn y blwch 'cyfarwyddiadau arbennig ar gyfer gwerthwr' pan fyddwch yn talu yn ein siop ar-lein, byddwn hefyd yn cynnwys, yn rhad ac am ddim, hufen dwylo Neal’s Yard Remedies Bee Lovely, gwerth £10.
 
Gellir gweld ein dewis o flodau gwyllt ar gyfer eu mabwysiadu yma.