Setch. Cowslip. Ragged Robin. Knapweed. Greater Burnet. What a fantastic collection of wildflower plugs to get growing on our top field. And what a fantastic and varied crew to plant them on Sunday afternoon. About 24 volunteers this week. Some were planted in long grass in straight rows Some planted…
An absolutely fantastic turnout of 20 volunteers on Sunday to plant baby plug plants in the South Wood (that’s the area between the paths leading to Woolton Road and Quickswood Road). About 600 plugs (a generous over-supply from Adam at LWT) including Foxglove, Primula and Red Campion were dug in…
Volunteer Event March 20th 2022 The aim of our volunteers on this bright sunny Sunday was to plant numerous ‘whips’ along the main paths and in the woods and Forty Fabulous Foresters turned up to help with the task. Kevin from Earthworks Liverpool explained the plan for the day,…
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 day and the…
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 recent construction. One group had…
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…