We enlarged the Potford Dam wildflower mini-meadow and doubled it in size.

The before foto, the work, and the after foto…

Thanks to Charlie, who is getting some Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award hours under his belt, for the photos. Some rare ones of me for a change.

Cutting back the bramble scrub needs to be done on some sort of rotational basis, according to the Wildlife Trust. If it’s just left it becomes horribly leggy and the understory is shaded out and it loses its thicket qualities, which decreases usefulness and biodiversity.

We can grub out the bramble roots when we overseed with a wildflower meadow seed mix in March.

What we are looking for is a mosaic of wildflower-rich grassland, scrub at various ages of maturity, and then the closed canopy woodland on the edges.

Some good news in the area where we had to rip out a load of Spanish bluebells that we inadvertently planted. We have our native English snowdrops coming up, and lots of them!!

A fantastic recovery and hopefully we will have a carpet of snowdrops as they thicken up.

A couple of fungi finds along the new Hawthorn Walk path.

And lastly our YouTube showing the new clearing.

Well that’s about it for this week. We are putting up bird-boxes on Wednesday and I will update the rest of the month activities in a bit. I have put in a bulk order for our mugs, a totally unique gift. Just visit the shop on the right if you want one.

Looking forward to life at the end of the ladder next time…

Until then!

Paul