To see last year’s work go to Monthly Diary 2024
December 2025
Sunhill Park – clearing a large compost heap and re-spreading the soil and leaf litter under trees. Removing a derelict iron post beside a path.
Scrub is brushcut and cleared from the orchard edge beside Baytree School. Five crab apple trees are planted and a nettle patch in the Baytree community area is cleared.
November 2025
Controlling the spread of brambles in Quinney’s Wood
Poets’ Walk – an old blackthorn leaning on the chainlink fence and over the path is cut down. Wain’s Hill ‘hedges’ opposite seats are mechanically trimmed to improve the view.
Dial Hill – brushcutting and raking off rank vegetation to improve biodiversity on a bank. Forking out potentially toxic and invasive wild lettuce in the viewing corridor.
October 2025
Brushcutting an overgrown area around the Orchard ditch. Demolishing a makeshift cycle ramp to restore the grass, and forking out nettles in the Baytree community area.
Sunhill Park – digging out and spreading leaf mould mulch under trees. Preparing a site for autumn planting of some shade tolerant herbaceous species.
Quninney’s Wood – clearing encroaching brambles to create a glade in the woodland
September 2025
Quinney’s Wood – clearing encroaching brambles from the woodland floor, along a section of the perimeter path and from under the top hedge
Woodcutters assist Friends of Poets’ Walk by raking on Church Hill and Wain’s Hill following late summer mowing by the contractor Green Mantle.
August 2025
Dial Hill – good access is restored with a hedge trimmer where paths are becoming overgrown. Wild clematis is removed from a young ash, everlasting pea is pulled and tree shoots are removed from old walnut stumps in the grassland.
Baytree School community area – bindweed, nettles, dock and bramble are invading the grassland and need to be controlled by pulling and grubbing out.
Dial Hill – late summer mowing starts early this year on the south-facing slope following weeks of hot weather and little rain.
July 2025
Woodcutters support the Friends of Poets’ Walk by restoring two long-abandoned benches, hedge trimming on the coast path, and pulling ragwort in St Andrew’s glebe field.
Dial Hill – Invasive and potentially toxic Wild Lettuce (Lactuca virosa) is grubbed out from the viewing corridor. Mowing is done under the two large walnut trees and a nearby sycamore to promote better grassland and public access.
Tree suckers in Quinney’s Wood need to be controlled, especially of Aspen and Blackthorn.
Dial Hill – pulling non-native invasive everlasting pea for the 3rd time this year. Two young trees showing stress in the heatwave now require some evening watering.
More mowing & raking up in the Community Orchard. Some areas left uncut for wildlife.
June 2025
Mowing beside Baytree School and in the Millennium Community Orchard
Restoring an old bench on Poets’ Walk with all materials bought by the Woodcutters.
Baytree School Community Area – mowing & raking up. Weeding between young trees.
Dial Hill – the viewing corridor mown. Mowing elsewhere by brush cutter and scythe.
May 2025
Dial Hill – mowing the viewing corridor (including invasive wild lettuce Lactuca virosa). Pulling more non-native and invasive everlasting pea from grassland and scrub borders.
On 14th May we were treated to a wonderful outing to Derek Milward’s bluebell woods near East Harptree. Thank you Gordon and Derek for your invitation and warm reception.
More remedial tree work in Sunhill Park with Clevedon Community Centre gardeners to further open up the wooded area to more sunlight. Removing sycamore stumps from a shrub border. Some underplanting of shade tolerant species is planned for the autumn.
April 2025
Dial Hill – pulling invasive everlasting pea from grassland. Nearby, fresh spring growth of ferns and other native species following mowing last winter.
An old oak and a large sycamore are cleared of self-seeded holly growing close to the trunks, to promote good growth of both trees and to show them at their best.
Dial Hill – grubbing out nettles & bramble crowns, and felling a small holm oak
Baytree School community area – tying tree whips to canes, and more dock grubbing & bramble clearing. About 100 whips were planted by a contractor in the winter of 2023/4.
March 2025
Grubbing out invasive dock plants from grassland at the Baytree School community area
Clearing brambles and scrub along the paths in Strawberry Hill woods
Virginia creeper has invaded Dial Hill from an adjacent garden and is now covering a large patch of ground. A small hawthorn tree is freed from a dense cover of the creeper.
Strawberry Hill woods – clearing brambles along the path and nearby road pavement
February 2025
Dial Hill – mechanically cutting encroaching brambles and grubbing out their roots, and clearing a dead fallen elder on the south-facing slope above the cricket pitch
Dial Hill – patches of unmown grassland where brambles are re-establishing are brush-cut
Clearing scrub between the Dial Hill play area and Esmond Grove fence at the request of members of the Cricket Club and play area users. Happy to oblige.
January 2025
Dial Hill – cutting out self-seeded Holm oak and making habitat piles with the brash. Nearby, encroaching bramble shoots are cut back along a path to improve access.
Volunteers from Clevedon Civic Society and Clevedon Community Centre join Woodcutters in some remedial tree work in Sunhill Park to improve access and allow in sunlight.
Baytree Community Area – Improving the grassland by grubbing out bramble crowns
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