Oh dear, I had just completed the reinstatement of all my paths when I discovered that some graffiti artists had decorated the area around our camp site.

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The  paths had become rather overgrown due to neglect caused by me not visiting the woods so often through the covid restrictions. The wood is in Wales and I live in England and for some time the border was closed, this coincided with the period of maximum growth of the bracken.

 

Anyway I have now cut the invading vegetation well back and also cut back some of the rhododendrons and opened up space around some of my young Beech, and Hazel that I planted some years ago.

 

 

 

For perfection I could rake up the cut material so that the paths get colonised by mosses and heather more quickly and to make it look ‘nice’  But that is not 100% necessary.

Priority now is to remove large numbers of young Silver Birch which have established themselves but are growing so close that none of them are ever going to amount to anything. So its a matter of selecting one good one and then removing everything else with in a 2meter radius or even more.

As for the graffiti well I shall leave it and it will no doubt fade, I wish that folks would enjoy the wood and not abuse it. I am not going to put up signs saying private keep out etc, but it is annoying when you find a vast amount of loo paper in one region or the graffiti somewhere else of someone who has been snipping back the bushes to gain access from the road. All of which has happened in the last weeks (half term may have had some effect?)