A Good Growing Season

The weather has been variable, to say the least, more or less all year!  A very cold spring, a dry June and now a 'sunshine and showers' along with strong winds July.  Vegetation at Foxglove has grown and grown!  It can be trimmed, strimmed, brush cut, secateured and even loppered one day and appears to grow again by the next!  Today staff and volunteers were out bringing a little order to the growth.

Bracken has grown tall and to reduce its vigour it needs to be slashed.  Jules and Hayley were returning from carrying out this work around the Stone Circle.  John was with them when he spotted some more, then more and even more!

Peter and Brian were strimming the edges of paths to make life easier for people walking along them, but carefully leaving the flowers.

Once the path was strimmed, Jules and Hayley got to work cutting back overhanging branches from the ancient hedgeline.

A group from North Yorks Council came and volunteered this morning, cutting back the branches from the access road.  Kate and Becky identified the moths.

Huge thanks to everyone involved today.  Every piece of work is really appreciated.  Thank you.