All ready for spring with some new homes!

Snowdrops provide the first very welcome sign of spring

Haymaking 2016

Good to see the meadow improving year by year.  The yellow rattle is getting more established and tackling some of the patches with the course grasses.

The peening bench which I made from some fallen ash in the wood has worked well and allows me to be keep a good edge on my Austrian scythe blade.

 

  
It always seems rather a shame to waste the best of the hay but the main thing is to get it raked off the meadow before its rots down.  At least it provides a comfortable 'hotel' for the woodland wildlife.
 

 

All complete for another season!

May Days
The time of Bluebells, Cowslips and Apple Blossom

Project Peening Bench. 

Now that fallen Ash is being made good use of and it will hold the anvil for sharpening my scythe.
 

Spring is arriving

Easter has arrived early at the end of March and so has the spring at Wrenwood.

Just across the lane a carpet of wild daffodils once again put on their show on a neighbouring meadow.  
 

        
Wood Anemones are dotted all around the wood and along the banks of the brook

 

Making the most of a fallen Ash, too good for firewood and just right for a bench for weary legs halfway up the hill.   

                                    
                                                                                                  

 

Space for everyone!

  

 

  

Our night time visitors appear to approve of some of the clearing work completed through the winter months

The final stages of Winter

Enjoyable times, clearing undergrowth and coppicing some of the smaller trees to let some light into our little wood,  before the bluebells break through in the spring.

Our little stream is running white and snow drops are appearing on the banks.  The year is starting all over again in Monmouthshire!

 

Late October days with early morning mist over the river Wye and a frost in the meadow.  

The ponies have arrived slightly later this year.  They will spend a couple of weeks enjoying grazing the new growth after hay making and before the winter sets in.

The brook is filling up and the leaves on the trees are now quickly turning and falling to the ground.  Another Winter is fast approaching in Monmouthshire.