Path Clearance 23rd January 2022 Although our paths have been newly topped and our carriageway scraped, everywhere gets covered with leaves during autumn, and so the first maintenance event of the year was a good old clean up. The carriageway was one of the targets of…
The carriageway has been scraped and all the leaf debris from decades has been piled and landscaped into a curved slope looking like it has been there since the time the carriageway was built. Still a little bare, it was agreed that it needed planting and seeding to naturalise it.…
Tree Planting On the third Sunday of October our happy crew of 24 volunteers met at the main gates as usual. The mission of the day was to plant trees. Some were to go against an old fence as screening, others were to be planted along the new path to…
A sunny start to the event saw our eager group of 13 cutting back the brambles covering the start of the carriageway. Some of the group went off to plant grass seed on the verges of the paths still muddy and bare after their…
Path Clearance – Sunday 1st August Childwall Woods and Fields, like everything during lockdown, was getting a bit overgrown, and a trim was well overdue. Brambles and nettles closed the paths on the bottom two fields while rhododendrons pushed across the paths in the woods. BUT our volunteers made short…
Rhododendron ponticum is classified as an invasive non-native species as it destroys habitats and animals with its toxicity. The Woodland Trust calls it A devil in disguise. ‘It may look pretty, but its effect on the landscape is significant’, say the Woodland Trust in their article about invasive species. They…
Although we are not able to start our regular events just yet it was felt by the committee of ‘Friends’ that small group events could begin and we should start with a maintenance event and a team of committee members only. With our risk assessments in our pockets and hands…
On a beautiful day in the woods, the group of volunteers began their work. Some of the team went off around the streets clearing them of litter while others concentrated on the woods. Cutting back brambles at the entrance to the…
Although the weather was really too wet for the art event, the maintenance and conservation volunteers were not that easily put off. The hardy volunteer team had the task of planting 60 Holly trees along the boundary of Childwall Abbey Road where there is no fence but…
It is not a secret that there are roughly 2000 square metres of Japanese Knotweed on the Childwall Fields. You may have heard that Japanese Knotweed is an invasive species which, if left unchecked will overrun the whole site before moving out into the surrounding roads. It has a reputation…