A busy few days at work and getting ready for Extinction Rebellion week which is starting this weekend. We spent Thursday on Mitcham Common looking at the next stage of the acid grassland restoration project. It was good to inspect the areas we worked on in early 2017 and to see how the restoration has been successful. In the future when Beddington Farmlands restoration is complete and the area is open to the public, a 'Wandle Valley Metropolitan Park' will be created, a 1000 acre contiguous green space between Mitcham Common and Beddington Park with the Farmlands at the centre. In turn the 'Metropolitan Park' will form the coreland of the Wandle Valley Regional Park which is 15 miles long. At the moment our local bird and wildlife group neglect Mitcham Common but as the group grows in the future as the whole area opens up it will be great to start collecting more data on the whole area.
Acid Grassland Restoration in late 2016/2017 More HERE
The same area as above, today
After we cleared the area, the Common Green Team scraped the top and mounded the top soil up (right of pic) to create/expose a sandy substrate for the acid grassland to establish itself
Wandle Valley Vista Point looking over Seven Islands on Mitcham Common
Another thing that caught my eye at work this week was this wall in someone's garden- my favourite kind of living wall, natural, incidental with a diverse selection of lichens and ferns etc.
OTHER POSTS ON MITCHAM COMMON (Including the Ring-necked Parakeet Roost, Rare Fungi and local specialist plants and White-letter Hairstreaks )
OTHER POSTS ON MITCHAM COMMON (Including the Ring-necked Parakeet Roost, Rare Fungi and local specialist plants and White-letter Hairstreaks )
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