2026
May 2026
Poets’ Walk – the informal path behind the Town Cemetery Allotments is cleared of rank vegetation to restore good access. Brash is made into habitat piles in the woodland.
Dial Hill – controlling invasive everlasting pea in grassland by pulling. A young rowan tree is re-staked while a nearby hornbeam and whitebeam thrive.
April 2026
Clevedon Community Centre – cutting shrubs hard back to restore full access along the pavement and improve parking space on the carpark.
Dial Hill – biennial Wild lettuce (Lactuca virosa), invading the viewing corridor, is best controlled by grubbing out the young plants with their vigorous taproots. The spread of wild garlic (Allium ursinum) is also controlled.
Strawberry Hill woods – bramble and nettle clearing, and ivy trimming on the rock face
Strawberry Hill woods – clearing brambles beside the main path from Thackeray Road
March 2026
Dial Hill – Forking out a fresh colony of spear thistle from disturbed ground, recently cleared of encroaching bramble, to promote good grassland
Baytree School community area – grubbing out brambles & nettles, and loosening tree ties
Dial Hill – removing invasive bramble from a mixed stand of hawthorn, blackthorn and elder. Trimming back encroaching bramble from a nearby path.
February 2026
Hedge cutting continues in Quinney’s Wood throughout February.
January 2026
Quinney’s Wood – cutting the top hedge and creating a ‘dead hedge’ with the arisings
Poets’ Walk on a frosty, sunny morning – reducing a large bramble patch on Church Hill
Poets’ Walk – scrub control at the edge of a grassland slope on Church Hill
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