A mild spring day today, which we spent helping the Friends of Longford Park with various tasks around the border of the community allotment and in the wildlife garden. Thanks to all who came along to help, especially the new volunteers!
Posts Tagged ‘Friends of Longford Park’
Longford Park allotment and wildlife garden
Posted in Community orchard, Wildlife education, tagged Friends of Longford Park on March 19, 2023|
Wildlife garden and grassland
Posted in Coppicing, Grassland, Meadows, Ponds and lakes, tagged Friends of Chorlton Meadows, Friends of Longford Park on December 16, 2018|
Well, our activities for 2018 are now over. Our last two outings have been with the Friends of Longford Park on 25th November and with the Friends of Chorlton Meadows on 9th December.
In Longford Park, we helped the Friends with a number of activities for the maintenance of the wildlife garden including seeding wood anemone, foxglove and yellow rattle; coppicing hazel; removing blackthorn which was invading the grassland area; and managing areas of dogwood, rose and flag iris near the pond.
Volunteers at work
Work in progress
Removing blackthorn root from grass
Tools
Coppiced hazel
At Chorlton Meadows, the Friends are currently in the process of trying to restore the only remaining area of old grassland. The aim is to re-introduce cattle grazing once the new fence has been completed. Sadly, many years of neglect has resulted in several species invading the field, not least bramble. The cattle will keep the invasive plant species down and allow the rarer plant species to thrive once again. SACV members spent the day working with the Friends in removing the bramble.
Volunteers at work
Volunteer with brambles
Volunteer at work
Volunteer at work
Volunteers at work
Hard work, but well worth it and our efforts were rewarded with an early Christmas soirée after the task, kindly hosted (as in previous years) by Elaine. Thanks to Elaine for the perfect end to the day!
And of course big thanks to everyone who has come out to volunteer with us in 2018!
Longford Park wildlife garden
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Friends of Longford Park on November 26, 2017|
There weren’t many of us, or of the Friends of Longford Park, out today – a day of occasional heavy rain but also good spells of winter brightness. However, we made good progress with various jobs in the park’s wildlife garden: some thinning in the wooded area to allow more light to penetrate, some creation of habitat piles along the fence lines, and some planting of hazel, dogwood, crab-apple etc. at various points in the garden.
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