Here is our Management Plan for Wild Maple Field for 2025/26.

Work parties are scheduled on different days of the week each month to give everyone chance to join in. There’s opportunity to meet new people and to enjoy the beauty of the Field.

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October 2025

• Remove some grass from limestone edge.

• Plant wildflower plugs: bird's foot trefoil, rock rose

• Plant plug plants: meadowsweet, tansy, betony, knapweed in meadows area.

November 2025

• Woodland - source and order new trees to replace dead ones.

• Limestone edge - remove some encroaching bramble and hawthorn

December 2025

• Plant elms and alder in copses

• Tools; spades, labels

January 2026

• Woodland - plant more oaks

• Plant more blackthorn in copses to replace dead trees

February 2026

• Mulch Hedge and Standard trees along hedge line and in Wild Area.

March 2026

• Scythe round bases of trees in woodland.

• Meadows - Scythe/strim top meadow & remove leavings
  Strim peace grove circle

April 2026

• Mow transect paths and path to Peace grove.

• Surveys of birds, butterflies, small mammals, reptiles, bats all begin

May 2026

• Wilderness grassy area - remove grass from base of standard trees

• Continue with surveys

June 2026

• Strim limestone bank to allow flowers to bloom

• Mow transect paths in the meadows

July 2026

• Surveys

• Scythe around base of trees

• Inspect for health of trees

August 2026

• Arrange grass mowing & removal on meadows

• Scythe/strim peace grove circle

• Continue with surveys

  September 2026

• Remove encroaching scrub from Limestone edge

• Remove some creeping thistle & docks from meadows areas