Woodland
Here you’ll find a rolling page of all the happenings in the woodland.
The woodland gives us so much, visibly in front of us and unseen happening unbeknown to us. Studies about woodlands have revealed so much in recent times, fungi networks connecting the trees in a community so much more than we realise. The hormones sent out in the air provide health benefits to humans and communicating with other plants and animals.
We have a diverse woodland with oak, ash, sycamore, hawthorn and a few single trees you’ll be able to spot when you visit. In the winter it’s bare and brown apart from the wonderful creeping ivy. Late winter shows us snowdrops, spring there’s a blanket of bluebells and in summer the towers of foxgloves provide a pretty splash of pink. The autumn brings blackberries in abundance, a real treat.
05/06/2020
The woodland is currently showing us beautiful foxgloves and ferns as high as your shoulders. It’s really magical. There aren’t too many maintenance jobs right now, a few sorting and tidying jobs.
To do this week
Tidy communal areas
Fire pit circle
Crafting corner
Build up deadwood hedge
Larger sticks needed as uprights to contain the horizontals
Could potentially take from the set edging the trench near the car park
Keep building up the horizontal hedge with sticks, twigs and bundles of moss found from the footpaths and communal areas
Edge the pathways with logs
In preparation for the winter
Big ongoing projects
Fairy village
Needs a complete makeover
Make it more magical for children
Ideas and creative suggestions for making it really special
Pinterest board tbc
“Doorway” to the reading nook
Needs a new entrance divider. The current material can’t be taken down until the nesting wren has left.
Wooden structure of some sort?
Research needed.
Pinterest board tbc