Matthew Arnold Field, Boars Hill, Saturday June 10th
This weeks blog was written by Kevin
Saturdays session for the AGG at Matthew Arnold Field at Boars Hill begun in glorious sunshine. There were a dozen keen volunteers and Rod to come along and point us in the right direction to scythe, lop and rake. This time we were mostly working down in the valley clearing bullrushes, thistles and bracken/ferns which was a good location working in mostly in the shade as the temperature climbed. There were still some Hawthorne samlings that were still spreading out from the main bushes in the field that needed pulling out with the useful tree popper and were quickly dispatched by James and Kevin before refreshment break.
Meanwhile
Sally, Jim and Roger took to task the bracken and ferns with their scythes. The
remaining group of Dieuwke, Carolyn, Lesley, Michele, Graham Helen and Olivia
pushed back the bullrushes and Thistles.
Still more to do but hopefully the plan to integrate the meadow/field to grow through into the valley to create a natural merging of meadow and woodland.
One
new addition to the meadow was a bench with a plague commemorating Scott a
horse that use to graze the meadow and joined us for our refreshment break on
one occasion, although we had to move him on as his table manners were a lot to
be desired, but sadly missed.
pulling up the thistles and bullrushes |
tea time |
scything in action |
tackling the ferns |
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