Rhody bash at Lyme Park on Sunday 20th November 2016

Nine of us worked in Lantern Wood today to cut and burn as much rhododendron ponticum as we could.


The weather was ok but not great, it was cold and dull and rained on us occasionally which was a shame. We had 2 'newbies', both of which worked really hard on their first workday with us:-)


We had a fantastic start when we discovered that Clare, one of the Lyme Rangers, had already set the fire and got it going for us - this was a real treat for us as we could get going straight away burning the cut rhody that had been left by the previous group.

 

We also had Dan, a youth Ranger who is also doing his Gold DofE, with us for the morning. Chris the lead Ranger, was helping some of the time and then Neil, another Ranger came and joined us for the last hour and stayed behind after we left to cordon off the fire so members of the public were aware of it's presence.

There's still plenty of rhody to cut and burn in Lantern Wood and we look forward to being back there again soon:-)

Photo's by Adrian