Taking That Closer Look
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… Read More »Taking That Closer Look
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… Read More »Taking That Closer Look
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… Read More »Sycamore Felled in DKH Open Space
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… Read More »Merry Christmas!
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… Read More »News from DKH Wood
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… Read More »Tree Down
This was a busy week for tree planting in the wood. The council tree department kindly gave us an Alder tree to replace the poplar that fell in the storm.… Read More »New trees in the park
This morning we re-sowed the meadow in the park. We used a special mix of seeds for clay soil called em4 from emorsgate. The council had prepared the ground by… Read More »Wildflower meadow sown
We planted the 30 free trees from the Woodland Trust today. There were 10 rowan, 10 wild cherries and 10 birch. These have been planted as single trees rather than… Read More »Woodland trust trees planted