A bit chillier than expected for May but the woodland is filling up. The wild bits are full of cow parsley, and looking suitably wild, and the areas of mown grass and flower rich path edges more defined. The leaf canopy is filling up well now.
There aren't many bluebells in the wood but what few there are had coarse foliage around them removed to give a better chance of spreading.
This is the base for a tank of water to sit on ready for washing tools at the end of a session. The hole was dug out and the concrete laid this month.
The foxgloves are doing well and some even have flower spikes forming. The brambles and nettles were again weeded out and some extra plants put in to fill any gaps.
Wildlife news - as in previous years a slow worm has been spotted basking and a woodmouse has had another litter of babies in the same place as before. Also this small white butterfly seen in the glade
Tracey Housely, from Suffolk Wildlife Trust, recently visited the woodland to advise whether any improvements could be made to increase the wildlife value of the woodland but it seems that we are doing quite well already.
Stitchwort
