Coronation celebrations May 2023

The May work party was brought forward a week to prepare the woodland for toasting the King on May 6th. Warm sunshine at last!

We had a nice morning and a good turn out for a  mowing and strimming session to reclaim some of the paths and tidy up the glade.

The fire pit was lifted out for cleaning properly!

Bunting going up!

Squeezed on to the picnic table for refreshments and chat.

May 6th 2023

I've always wanted a summer evening event in the woodland, so it was lovely to host the first coronation event of the weekend, such a pity it rained! 

The event team did all the organising and put up the lights and the woodland did look really pretty.

Speech by Nigel.

The toast.

Catch up Feb-April 2023

 It was a cold spring and quite wet. 

Glade tidy!

Thinning the smaller trees, previously marked, on the boundary.

Clearing round the snowdrops

A nice pool forming in the central ditch.

Snowdrops!

In March we didn't have a work party as there really wasn't much to do.

Early April

It was a nice day bit there were only a few of us this month. We looked at the water on the path and decided to just live with it, see photo later. We took down and cleared the rest of the small trees near the den. We lifted and divided more snowdrops and planted them round the glade.  

Greening up

Wild garlic, planted in the autumn.

Main pathway

Pool still there

We decided that there wasn't much we could do about the water flowing over the path as it's only a temporary problem in the wetter months and most of it goes through the pipe anyway.

Redcurrant flowers

Wild daffodils

The woven hazel beginning to bud!