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A very light tidying up of the Wild Life Area.
I was quite satisfied of the relatively little rubbish that had accumulated and wanted to finish the pruning plus I wanted to see how the vegetation was faring.
The area look well in the spring and it always surprised me how quick and complete is the transmogrification.
This year we thinned the larger clumps of Baddleja with the intention of letting more light go to the ground. They have formed veritable dark caves and taking away some of space needed by all the other plants.
Hopefully new vegetation will be able to quickly establish itself in the new space and help preventing the formation of under-canopy type of space that have been associated with improper use of the area and last year with problem with some of the local kids using them to form dens (that wouldn't be too bad if it were not for the habit of making fire and bringing in all sort of "furniture") making use of green branches.
The oak sapling has started to leaf out there is hope that it will fare better than last year when it was affected by some infection.
This year there is proliferation of Great Forget-me-not (Brunnera macrophylla) that form large mats, there are also large patches of the more common Cow Parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) that together with another habitual resident, White Deadnettle (Lamium album) gives a great richness of green.
At the end we did quite a bit of work anyway but we were happy to be there in a beautiful spring day.
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