I dropped out at the last minute this week due to a very late night - thanks to Daniel for the following text and photos.

"Daniel, Sarah, Adrian and Alison travelled up the M56 today to Burton Wood for a joint workday with the Chester volunteers. Burton Wood covers about 30 acres of which 20 are owned by the Trust and 10 owned by the local council. Arthur Kilpin Bulley, the founder of nearby Ness Botanic Gardens, gifted the wood to the Trust once he'd settled on the site for Ness. Today was a rare visit - our work on the Wirral is usually at the much larger Thurstaston Common.

We spent the day cutting down, pulling up and burning rhododendrons. The Chester group had rhody bashed in the wood quite recently and we continued from where they'd left off. There aren't many big bits of rhody left in the Trust's patch because of all the clearing that has gone on over the years and it's now just a case of clearing the regenerate growth from time to time."