Autumn – Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness – and spiders! Sadly, by the time I got back from the Heath Hands Spider walk this web in my garden had already been abandoned but it looks as though it might have had good use. And for those you who, if you are like me, always …
Heath Hands
A few random snippets
Brief sojourn in Bristol There is certainly no stopping a bramble… This one has grown up through the hollow post of a fence in Stoke Park in Bristol – where these goats are also happily roaming free and munching whatever, including the brambles, comes their way. Back in Hampstead Lane Back in the Hampstead Lane …
Himalayan balsam
Pretty, isn’t it? And it looks lovely when it lines the route of a railway line or a river. But… In the Himalayas, from whence it hoves, balsam is kept reasonably under control by rust fungus (Puccinia komarovii var. glanduliferae for those who want to be technical). But in the UK the rust fungus is …
Heath Hands happenings
I realise that it is a long time since I logged any of our Heath Hands activities – but that certainly does not mean that we have been slacking. Indeed, I have just returned from the Hill Garden where the pieris to the east of the pond was in full and glorious flower. I was …
‘Our’ tree – part of the Queen’s Green Canopy….
Planted out with our own fair hands. It may not look much now but it is part of a 70th Jubilee project, the Queen’s Green Canopy, to plant a million trees across Britain in the queen’s name during the jubilee year. Since tree planting cannot happen during summer months, the project has extended its deadline …
More tree trouble….
But this time serious tree trouble….. The large oak which stood at the edge of Millfield Lane opposite the Stock Pond causeway. I saw it on my way back aross the heath this afternoon and stopped to talk to Ranger Paul who was trying to clear a gulley beneath its torn up roots to let …