I spent a thoroughly enjoyable Sunday morning at Witton Dene with the Friends group raking an area where a new woodland glade/meadow is to be grown. We then seeded the whole area with grasses and wild flowers and moved on to do a second area which included clearing out leaves and pulling up some Himalayan Balsam seedlings.

Later in the spring/summer there will be a number of  days when I will be joining in pulling up the balsam which takes over the countryside drowning out our native species. I will be posting the dates on this site as and when I know them.

The whole area is being transformed by the hard work of  the friends of Witton Dene. If anyone wants to get involved please get in touch and I’ll put you on to the organiser.