2014

6 March: tree planting

You are invited to join members of the Group and local school children to plant ten new trees on Redland Green on Thursday 6th March 2014 from 10.00am .

Please meet by Redland Green Farm. Tools will be provided, though it would be helpful if you can bring your own spade. Your own gloves and stout boots are advisable.

We have ten trees to plant: three fruit trees, two Hawthorn, one Rowan, one Silver Birch and a Scots Pine. These are provided through Tree PiPs: the Mayor's scheme to increase tree cover in the city. For more information about this scheme, see: http://www.bristol.gov.uk/page/environment/treebristol

In addition, we'll be planting a mature Hawthorn and a Holm Oak. These two have been sponsored by members of RGCG.

The new trees are mainly replacements for those which have been lost from the Green over the years.

This is phase 1 of the Green's tree planting scheme agreed at previous RGCG meetings.

New meadow

Many of you will have noticed a recent splash of colour adorning Redland Green on the slope behind St Oswald s Road. The perennial meadow is the culmination of a long term effort by RGCG and Bristol City Council (BCC) to improve the visual and wildlife amenity of the Green. In a survey carried out by BCC with the help of RGCG, a wildflower meadow received strong support from the local community. The meadow was in part inspired by a joint BCC and Bristol University study of wild flowers in improving insect populations in urban areas:

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/research/ecological/community/pollinators/initiative/

For the keen botanists, the meadow has been sown with a perennial mix, which includes wild flowers such as knapweed, ox-eye daisy, yarrow and yellow rattle:

http://wildseed.co.uk/mixtures/view/26

but as many of these will not flower in the first year, this was supplemented with an annual mix, which includes flowers such as the common poppy, corn marigold and corn cockle:

http://wildseed.co.uk/mixtures/view/1

We hope that the success of this years bloom will be equalled or bettered next year, and with the help of some judicious weeding by volunteers, will continue to provide pleasure to all visitors to the Green, human and insect.

John Tarlton

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