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This is the other project we ran on Saturday morning, in the Bluebell Wood Wild Garden, ran by Lesley and Brian. There was a lot of clearing of weeds before planting and Simon can be seen here getting stuck into the task. Careful laying out of the new plants to hopefully grow and take hold and provide a good display and attract bees.

Simon surveying the scene whilst the new plants waited patiently

Lesley and Roger hard at work whilst Chris and Brian found water

Finishing touches by Simon and then plants carefully laid out

Lesley and roger planting and the finished job, quite a transformation !

We ran two projects on Saturday morning, this one at the Bee Garden organised by Chris. We needed to clear the beds of invasive weed roots as much as possible to be ready to plant new wild flowers . Hopefully they will establish to attract even more Bees to the area.

Chris planning where to put the new plants whilst others digging out the weed roots

Carefully laid out ready to plant

Planted out waiting for rain

A small informal get together on Saturday, organised by Lesley and Barry to do some weeding and edging at the twin gardens in the Local Park. Also picked up several bags of litter around the park.

Before we started

Lesley and Brian hard at work

Much tidier all weeded and edged

We had a very productive morning in the Bluebell Wood yesterday. Brian led the project with 9 of us working and visits from our chairman, Chris Gossop and Barry to inspect progress !

Some of our local residents had been very busy building a dam across the stream, using up a lot of our woodchip that we had planned to use for footpaths. Roger and Chris waded in and within an hour cleared all the debris and even salvaged some of the wood chip to use as mulch around the new trees.

The Park Trust had supplied us with 25 Hazel whips with mulch matting, spirals and pegs so Lesley, Christine, Pat and Margaret set to planting these across the Bluebell Wood, so Big Thank You to our Parks Trust for helping us with this project.

After clearing the stream, Roger and Chris cleared the remainder of our wood chip pile, again supplied by the Parks Trust, to almost finish the path from the Green Ride to Milesmere.

Stream blocked and Roger wading in to start clearing the debris

Chris working with Roger to get the stream flowing again

Lesley and Christine planting some of the 25 Hazel whips

Roger digging the last of the woodchip for Brian to lay on the path to Milesmere

Another excellent morning working together.

It was lovely on Saturday morning and we got a lot done at the Bee Garden and Fernery. For those who may not know where this is, it is half was along the footpath between Stone Hill and the High Street, not far from the pond.

This is our third project here this year and there is quite a difference from how it started.
This week we cleared out all the ground elder in the front beds and created a new bed at the back by clearing fallen tree logs and clearing off ivy to allow more light. In the new bed we cleared the ground and planted two new multi stem Hazels.
We also found two empty nest boxes which had fallen down, so we have taken those away to repair and replace.

This is how it looked in February                    This is how its looking now

Brian, Barry and Chris clearing the fallen tree stumps

Chris planting a hazel in the Fernery and Brian planting in the newly cleared area

Our two new Multi Stemmed Hazels