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Rhododendrons at Priory Gardens

April 12, 2015 by Julian

Today we were working at Priory Gardens on behalf of the Red Rose Forest, to remove a patch of invasive rhododendrons from an edge of the site near Dane Road.  On starting, it looked as though the area to clear might not be too great, but in fact the rhododendrons were pretty extensive and established, so by the end our piles of cut material were fairly high!  Doubtless we’ll have missed some of the invaders and some will re-sprout, but we’ll have opened up this part of the woodland for some time.

Volunteer at work
Volunteer at work
Clearing the rhododendrons
Clearing the rhododendrons
A removed root
A removed root
Panorama of work in progress
Panorama of work in progress
Piles of cut rhododendron
Piles of cut rhododendron

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Posted in Invasive species, Woodland management | Tagged Priory Gardens, Red Rose Forest | 1 Comment

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  1. on April 4, 2016 at 7:08 pm Rhododendron-bashing at Priory Gardens | SACV

    […] with last year’s similar task, some of us were in action yesterday at Priory Gardens, on behalf of the Red Rose Forest, to help […]



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