We would like to invite you down to Skelmorlie Crescent North for some Halloween fun! Join us during your guising! Meet us at the North side and follow the lights to the clearing. There you will find some traditional Halloween games and perhaps even a spooky story or two (age appropriate). Hope to see you […]
The time has finally come to actually chip away the big piles of wood collected! Watching out for our feathery friends One of our members rightly pointed out that nesting birds could be a concern at this time of year and so contacted the RSPB. The RSPB advised that as long as we do a […]
We’re delighted to announce that we have won a small grant to help with our Skelmorlie Crescent North project! Just a small pot of £200 which will help us move things forward and keep our coffers full. Next stop – chipper hire! […]
Around a dozen or more Skemorlie residents joined us for a walk through Kelly Woods as botanist Angus Hannah set about recording plant species present. Peter Livingstone from Eadha Enterprises also joined us. Walk route and plant diversity We met at Wemyss Bay Station, heading up to the woods via Station Road, stopping near the […]
Read More… from Findings of Our Group Walk with Angus Hannah
**EDIT: due to the cold snap and wet weather forecast we’ve decided to postpone for a week. .Primarily because using a chipper in wet weather is a bit dangerous! Come and join us for the next exciting step in the North Cresent Clearup! We’re organising a chipper for this event to process the piles of […]
Angus Hannah has lived on Bute since 1978 and has been recorder for Clyde Isles on behalf of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) since 2002. He joined Marie and Tom for a walk up Kelly Glen and gave lots of useful information. Here are some notes taken: Notes The Kelly Gorge woods […]
Data of the small survey we’ve been doing of one of the more open areas of the Kelly Wood, looking at sapling survival rates over the last 4 years. The objective was to see if the oaks were germinating at all or were getting munched. Interestingly it’s showing that although there is a fair amount […]
Read More… from Sapling growth and survival rates at Kelly Woods
Rhododendron Ponticum This plant is a non-native invasive species in Scotland and is listed on Schedule 9 of the UK Wildlife and Countryside Act. It originally comes from the Iberian peninsula, Eastern Europe and West Asia and was brought to Britain in the Victorian period to plant as an ornamental shrub around estate houses. It […]
Join us in Skelmorlie Crescent North to do some more clearing and tidying of the invasive species – Rhododendrons! We’ve got some cutting, piles of brash to sort out and some paths to start defining! Bring your own tools, gloves, hot drink and snack. All Welcome! We’ll meet at the usual spot by the cherry […]
All are welcome to our first event of 2023! Come along and join us for our next event in Skelmorlie Cresent North -helping clear some of the invasive species and improve the clearing access. Bring your own tools, gloves and perhaps a hot drink and snack! Will look forward to seeing you there. […]
