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Welcome to the Waresley and Gransden
Woods website
This website is dedicated to providing
information on all topics relating to the Waresley and Gransden Woods reserves of
The Wildlife
Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
For directions to visit the reserve follow this link.
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Car Park Wildflowers
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17/10/2021 - the wood's car park is host to two species of
wildflower that are in bloom at the moment, these are field
scabious and white campion, which is pictured below. It'll be
interesting to see how long they remain in flower.
Stay safe and please
respect the Trust's wishes that visitors keep to the paths,
especially as the wood's paths can be muddier at this time of the
year - Graham.
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17/10/2021 - the current coppice section has come on in leaps and
bounds thanks to our influx of new volunteers. There are not
many hazel stools remaining to be cut as can be seen from the image
below. Once all the bramble has been cleared, we'll start
layering the uncut poles. Work parties
run once a fortnight on Sunday morning, contact me if you wish to
join us or find out more.
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10/10/2021 - the coppice section in the wood's "box junction"
was last cut in 2015. The picture below shows a hazel stem
that was partially cut and then buried, "layered", in the
ground. After 6 years a new hazel stool has grown from where
the old stem has rooted itself. We shall be layering again
this year, to increase the spread of hazel in this section.
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06/10/2021 - today was our second mid week visit to the reserve
to cut back the vegetation in the car park. Because of lockdown,
this work wasn't done last year and the hedges had got a bit out of
control. We'll be continuing this tidy up over the coming
weeks.
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Sunday
conservation
work parties are now running once a fortnight until March 2022
Contact
me for more details if you are interested in joining us
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Last Conservation Update
17/10/2021
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The coppice section shown above is one
of the quadrants in the box junction. This quadrant was last cut in
2015 and since then its hazel stools have grown sufficiently to
begin shading out ground flora. Click here
or the on the image to open the conservation work webpage to see our progress so far.
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