Ten of our volunteers turned out and spent the day working with Doug the "carreership" (trainee) warden cutting and burning Rhododendron Ponticum near the car park. There was some drizzle but we were well sheltered among trees and screened from most of the breeze by the valley we were working in. When people ventured out into the carpark they reported back that it was "far wetter out there" - so we had a good day.We cut the smaller trunks, and stripped the branches off the larger ones with bow saws, dragged away the debris to the fire and burnt it - the fire was hot and didn't produce much smoke - Doug checked a couple of times to make sure we were not smoking the public on the "moat path" - the main path from the car park to the house.
A number of the "plants" had very large trunks which had to be cut by Doug with a chain saw - once we were well out of the way.
There are three photographs - before during and after. Though the cleared area did extend a little further left out of the frame.
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