Winter '23/'24 update

The extremely wet winter weather meant that many of our usual winter activities were rather late in happening. However, just in the nick of time, members of the group surveyed and cleaned out our 21 bird nesting boxes, strimmed and re-seeded our summer-flowering wildflower meadow near the Cossins Road entrance, carried out some litter picks and dug out some intruding brambles along the Metford Road allotments palisade fence. We've continued to enrich the green by planting primroses in various places around the green, and, as an experiment, some hellebores to brighten up the area by the Redland church wall below the yew trees. It may be that this area is too dark or too dry, but next winter will tell whether the hellebores can tolerate such conditions.

An update on the use of our bird boxes in 2023 will be available shortly, here.