I am deeply embarrassed to see that it is three months since I posted about my garden, Heath Hands or indeed any garden anywhere. I can only blame our Salon Music project which has rather taken over my blog life, whatever about the rest of my life. And it has been winter so most of …
Mattocking brambles
Woodland conservation on Sandy Heath
Wednesday morning saw a group of ten keen Heath Handers wielding scythes and mattocks alongside the ‘ride’ which runs across Sandy Heath from the Spaniards to North End. The ‘ride’ would have been much more open 50-100 years ago – much more ‘heath-y’ with bare ground, gorse and grassland. However, the wide scale sand digging …