May. The grass is cut in July and on a Saturday morning, friends of the church help with raking up the grass, trimming edges, tidying the graves and in general maintaining the surroundings, including cutting the hedges. In this work the Stourbridge Rambling Club have become firm supporters so that up to 30 people are involved in the exercise. This is followed by
lunch on the lawn in the churchyard or the Village Hall, depending on the weather. Thereafter the grass is cut approximately every three weeks until the Autumn with some patches being left to allow late flowering plants to seed.
There are over 100 species of wild flowers and grasses and almost as many lichens growing in the churchyard. Joy Ricketts and Claire Leather, who are lichen experts, came from Worcester and surveyed the lichens on the church and gravestones and produced a list of 65 species.
In the church, there are leaflets with a map showing three walks around the parish which many visitors have found worth following.
