At the beginning of the year, during the snow we planted a large number of tree whips a few feet away from but following the fence line along the inside border at Ilott Wharf. During the course of the spring & Summer a lot of brush had grown and had filled the space between the fence and the young tree whips. This overgrowth would of course make it difficult for the trees to grow as they would be starved of light etc so we worked our way along clearing the brush from the fence to just behind the whips, being careful as we went along to not accidentally damage any of the whips that were now hidden deep amongst the brush.

We had a reasonable turnout and managed to achieve what we set out to do. When we got closer to the end of the run we came to an area where there had been some damage sustained to a tree during a recent storm and this had subsequently damaged the fence below. We did some work to detach the damaged part of the tree so that it could be cleared from the fence but repairs to the fence itself would have to be left until another day.