Hello, welcome to the first King’s Wood blog.
In the following months I hope to inform, entertain and give an insight into planting and managing a brand new wood in the Huntingdonshire landscape. Actually we are already one and half years into the project but then woodlands are long term so it’s easy to backtrack and recall what’s already happened.
For ease of writing the King’s Wood will be the “KW” henceforth.
Some hard numbers
- The KW is 10 acres (4.2ha)
- We planted 7730 trees as 32 species, Oaks being the most numerous.
- Planted in 4 week during December 2023 and January 2024 and then it rained, lots!
In the short time since planting we’ve added numerous elements to bring a wide and diverse backdrop of environmental benefit each of which we’ll cover in future blogs but I am very pleased with the wildflower mix. Every seed of the 17 species seems to have grown. This is a clay land mix that brings pollen and nectar availability to the insect world. Quite honestly I’ve never seen so many meadow brown butterflies.
Two more things to mention
There’s a notice board by the KW handgate and on it a monthly species list, calendar of events and a test blog! Check them out.
The final element to mention is the monthly KW “walkabout” , always the last Monday of the month at 7pm. Just a ramble around the KW with some nature topic(s) to be discussed or questions that need answers, usually lasts an hour.
Next blog
Next blog will land in the first week of July as we need to include monthly rainfall figures and pond depth…….its a farmer thing!
Michael
This is a really great idea Michael, thank you! I will look forward to reading the monthly blog and hope to join the ramble very soon too.
Love hearing all the farmer stuff!
Julie M