Nine of us met up with Ceara before walking to South Wood to begin the task of cutting down and stacking red osier dogwood. No, I didn't know what it was either and had to ask good old Google! It is a non-native species that grows prolifically and seems, once established, like rhodi to tangle itself.
We started around the mill pond, disturbing a heron that was stood minding its own business, stacking all the cut shoots by a tree that had come down in storm Claudia. Ceara asked if we could help to move the tree, so once brew finished we set to loading up the trailer using straps to help carry the big pieces, between four people, as well as cutting some into more manageable sizes and dragging as much as we could out of the pond.
That was hard work not made any easier by the downpours that kept up all day. There is still some to move because they need a chainsaw on them.
Finally back to the dogwood which was further down the woods along the riverbank.
Thank you to Ceara for a good workday and especially thanks to my colleagues for all their hard work in the most inclement weather.
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Christine
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