Clear signs of Spring on Mayfields on January 24 after the storms, but also lots of litter blown onto Mayfields and two smaller dead trees blown down.

In anticipation of heavy rain and strong winds forecast for Sunday 21st of January Malcolm decided to spread another 4 bags of pea gravel over a muddy section of the back path. He hopes this will reduce trampling on the wild flowers growing on the path verges there.

Coldest night in York for some time on January 17 but wildflowers being grown on under shelter for now are doing well, including for examples Native Daffodils, Fritillaria, White Campion and Ox-Eye Daisies.

Paul and Lesley Abbott came out for 2 hours on Friday January 12th to help with reduction of the mostly dead and Ivy smothered Elder tree beside the main gate. Malcolm and Mike had started the slightly tricky job on Thursday morning. Sad to see the tree reach the end of its natural life.

Kathryn and Malcolm had a useful session on Wednesday 10th January and managed to do yet more leaf raking/composting and spread 6 bags of pea gravel along the path. A well defined path is safer and reduces trampling on wildflowers in adjacent verges.

We started off in January raking up and composting leaf and twig accumulation from the festive break. Quite a lot to do still after the wet and windy weather of late. Initially we concentrated on this area at the N.W. corner of the site as we want to enhance the wild flower diversity even more here for our Co-op Community fund supported project.

This shows the need for removal of accumulated leaf-fall here.

Not quite finished after 3.5 hours of work but looking a lot better on January 8th.