Much buttercup and bramble was dug/pulled out to give the lovely plants a chance to thrive. It’s making a real difference but we still have about 10 years of Monday mornings before we’re on top of it all!

Two cherry sucker/saplings from Royate Hill Nature Reserve’s Community Mission yesterday are now planted in the Cemetery Gardens, and hopefully will get enough water to survive.

Armed with small snips. big snips and panthers (and later a tree popper) one team headed up onto the viaduct. The main task was to remove sycamore but we also got some ash and there was some rogue nettle head removal! We also popped sycamore and the odd cherry while we were up there (👀). Surprisingly breathtaking. A highlight was seeing some ladybirds emerging from hibernation and some robins and chifchaffs (apparently one bird says chiff chaff and it isn’t a call and answer type of thing where one goes chiff and the other goes chaff).

Team spruce made what can only be described as light work of tidying the mosaic area where we started. The amount of work looked like it took more than an hour but apparently was really quick! (Will leave Mel to fill in more detail here…)

All that was left was to have the customary tea, biscuit and chat before heading off into the glorious sunshine.

Until next time…