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Following on from the spraying of the new woodland earlier in the spring, we have now returned to flail off between the planted rows of young trees to further aid their establishment in Year I.
We will return to spray out rows shortly with the quad-mounted sprayer to ensure the best start possible for the new woodland.
Tad has been busy during the settled weather last week spraying over 100, 000 newly planted trees across Wiltshire and Hampshire to control the weeds to ensure they have the best possible start.
It’s not all about felling trees! this week Tad and the team completed a new planting scheme on the edge of Bath.
The project was for 1.16ha (= 11600 (m2) with 1344 trees in 1.2m tubes.
The trees included mixed broadleaves including oak & beech, as well as field maple, wild service and hazel.
If the wild service tree isn’t as familiar to you as the others, then ” it’s a deciduous broadleaf which can reach 25m when mature.
(Sorbus torminalis) – the bark is brown and patterned with cracked, square plates, and the twigs are slender, shiny, grey-brown and straight”.
See the Woodland Trust website for more details
Preparation for seeding at Bishops Cannings Cricket Club earlier in the week, following importing and levelling of soil to bring up outfield levels.
We were asked to level and seed the area and sow with sports mix grass seed. Tristan spent a Saturday on the stone burier to get things level; seed was drilled today and rolled in. Green in a couple of weeks – hopefully!
The final image shows the ‘after’ – “Bishops Cannings Cricket Club now have a green outfield again! Favourable weather has made a huge difference with the special grass seed mix growing well in the mild conditions.
We have been very busy and trying to complete various external works projects during the school holidays. It has been difficult to source the materials, to say the least.
However, this project at a local school near Shrewton was completed today – new Close Board fence, new and increased parking areas along with additional lighting. All ready for the new term.
Part of an ongoing project in the Savernake Forest. The regeneration of the forest grass along the fence line in the forest after mulching is impressive. From a dead forest floor to lush grass …
And here’s the link from our work in May giving you almost the “before and after~ shots
A spot of landscaping from last week at Ticehurst more pictures to follow…
Probably ‘spot’ is an understatement…. To fit around the existing trees of Corsican Pine, Turkey Oak, Atlas Cedar and English Oak, the plants included a selection of Acer, Betula, Catalpa, Quercus, Taxus baccata, Cornus, Prunus spinosa, Ilex aquifolium, Escalonia, Berberis Darwinii, Pyracantha, Eunonymous and hebe.
About 900 altogether ….
Our original Facebook post at the beginning of November showed that we were making a number of these. We mentioned that they would be painted cream and concreted to the ground. But we didn’t get many replies as to what they would be used for, so we thought you’d like to know the answer!
They are, in fact, timber firing points we installed at Warminster Ranges, all made in-house. And they had to be painted country cream as they didn’t want bright white!
A recent pond refurbishment with 15 years of silt and leaf mould removed. We retained some water and all the fish and then laid a new liner. The pond was then refilled to which we added the retained water to get the microbes started.
To see some more examples of our work which isn’t tree surgery, tree surveys or fencing, please see here.
And now adding a new photograph in June 2019 of what it looks like 6 months later. Really does illustrate the “before and after”…
