4th May
4th - 29th May
More planting, majority in meadow.
10th May
Jonathan made his first visit.
14th May
Keith helped with this year's bird survey.
14th, 15th and 21st May
Tim began helping us think about a website.
18th May
Mel came to help with digging the pond/wet area.
21st May
We planted Willows for the bird-watching bower on the wetland.
23rd, 24th and 25th May
Much work in the Pit Wood - paths - strimmed and brashing started; re-strimming of path in top strip and brashing at west end.
25th May
Nick visited and offered to help map the history of the land; we was of a mind that there might possibly have been ancient woodland here; we heard a green woodpecker in the Pit Wood.
29th May
Andrew from Cottage Garden Flowers in Bingfield came to see the site; he has donated some Lady's Bedstraw plants.
Please use your imagination to see this as a woven bower in years to come, encircling a binoculars-wielding Clare
Nick identified some of our trees as Red Oaks, pointing out the 'pins' or 'whiskers' on the tip of each lobe, and the red base of the stalk