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West Hill landscaping project

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By  4antje at 16:35 on 11/03/10

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    Help would be appreciated by as many people as possible for the planting of shrubs on Sunday, 11th April - meet at 10 a.m. at the top of West Hill.  Please bring trowel/spade to for the  planting and sturdy gloves.   Portishead in Bloom are enhancing this area, and we are hoping to complete stage one on Sunday, 11th April.  Look forward to seeing you there,
    many thanks,  Antje.

    By  4antje at 16:35 on 11/03/10

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    If the volunteers are safely able would they also like to look at the top of the North Weston Valley conservation zone north west of Weston Big Wood, where if the landowner agrees, North Somerset council officers can assist with controls, The Landscape Architect could work out some decent planting, preferably with native species of colour rendition, given the wall and the soil slump, hedgerow and "footpath" can be protected, that means some digging or the lot is going to end up in North Weston village, and the rabbit accommodated we could have a revived vegetated walk with less bramble and more artificial ecology; it can hardly now be a true natural site after years of farm and urban alteration, neither is it arable, so it might as well have some recreational decent and controllable scenery. Not wishing to lumber people with work, but if they enjoy it and planting trees and bushes that grow on their own is not commercial forestry peace work, a land rover could take items right to the site, mechanical equipment of small bearing load might be available locally (Hydrex ?); I once wanted to hire and save St Peter's School from the additional land given by the builders back to the school plot as Noel could not afford the budget cost of bringing that into use, Noel has retired, the school has now had the site cleared anyway, it just makes it better for the children and adults who pass through. Thanks.

    By  MikeHydroSoil at 22:16 on 14/03/10

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    The actual site is of course on the NE side of the Weston Big Wood managed forestry plantation, mind the serious barb wire, there is razor wire at Mendip south, on a quarry, vicious and I thought banned, while the route alongside the contained woodland reaches across to the NW side of Weston Big Wood, my lack of clarity during writing, but we used to roam about there, Donkey Lane, when very young and later during December warm enough for a shirt and light trousers only, global warming has nothing on the 1960s, later when qualifying, my cousin yelling out of trees and swinging from branches scaring his sister, later Uncles and Aunts lived just behind about the time Westbury built and as Highdown School grew in size on its own terrace. It used to be fields, now badgers and houses. There is a lot of horse as my daughter and friends know from school visits when they were supposed to be listening to Botany, much classic erosion, several sheep, wildfowl, wild birds, springs, old irrigated plots of market garden, fallen walls, superb for plants flowering undergrowth. A superb site for School teaching and farming, so better access that ceases to erode would be good, but I am enjoying myself writing this it is not my work and I best get along.

    By  MikeHydroSoil at 09:17 on 15/03/10

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