By Stephen Govier Walking through Green Dale this Saturday on the annual wildlife walk led by the London Wildlife Trust some identification of plants took place. At one stage a tufted grass was called out as “Meadow foxtail” and that is exactly what you would expect to find in a meadow flowering at this time of year. … Read more »

Ian Williams, the Southwark tree officer for parks has issued an emergency tree felling notice for a sycamore in Dog Kennel Hill Open Space. The large tree sits next to the much-used ramp that goes down into the Sainsburys car park. On close inspection it turns out that the tree had extensive Kretzschmaria deusta fungus at … Read more »

Wishing everyone who has been involved in the Friends of Dog Kennel Hill Wood this year a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a Happy 2015. Thank you for all your hard work – we achieved a lot this year: bat walk, spring walk, RSPB bird count, Gaumont film night and several workdays. See you in 2015!

This morning two members of the Friends group met with Paul Highman (Park Manager), Robert Roach (Contracts and Services officer) and Joe Ogunbiyi (Quadron) to discuss various aspects of Dog Kennel Hill Open Space and Wood. Wildflower Meadow The Friends of DKH Wood have asked if we can take over the management of the wildflower meadow … Read more »

Sadly another tree came down next to the wood on Sunday night. Local residents reported a cracking sound at 7pm and on closer inspection one of the three large ash trees that borders the wood and the car park had snapped at the base and crashed into the wood. This tree had a ring of fungus around … Read more »