At the beginning of October, the BTCV Weekday Conservation Team spent a few days in the park Willow Spiling (along the far side main lake to the visitor centre) and coppicing (in 'the rough').Above: Jill, one of our beloved ...
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Another regular site for us - Dallow Downs in Luton. Another of those 'unimproved grassland' sites, but in this case, areas have been overcome by scrub. Work continues to remove this scrub so that wildflowers (including the ...
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Our annual trip to Felmersham gravel pits - an area of unimproved grassland ideal for rare wildflowers such as orchids.Above: John Parker raking the cut grass. We remove the grass so that the soil remains nutrient poor - ...
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Last winter, the Weekday Conservation Team did some willow spiling next to 'the beach' at Priory Country Park. You can see a video of the willow spiling construction on the right hand side of the page.Above: How the willow ...
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Below: Rob carefully pulling up willowherb, ...
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Cowslip Meadow is a well hidden nature reserve of near SSSI quality. It is a fantastically diverse habitat and Great Crested Newts, Water Voles and Marsh Orchids are to be found there. The willowherb that we were there to ...
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On 07/08/08 (a Thursday) the Weekday Conservation Team went to Shortmead House in Biggleswade where we did several tasks.Above and Below: Ash and Cinders (the resident feline siblings) took a keen interest in taking our ...
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On 04/08/08 the Weekday Conservation Team went to Livingstone Lower School in Bedford to a) build a fence & gate to protect an area of grass that is going to be planted/sown as a wildflower meadow and b) to construct some ...
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