January Meeting

 

Happy New Year to all.

 

A big thank you to Martin for doing the minutes of the November meeting If you would like a copy please send an email (The address is on the right hand side of the screen.)

 

Please note we are having our meeting a week early on the 19th January at 7.30 at the Pontarddulais Cricket Club and we hope you can make it.

Thank you

A Big Thank You to Pontarddulais Garden Centre for the donation of these packets of bulbs which we put in last week.

We have no meeting now until the last Thursday of January at the Cricket Club at 7.30 and that we wish everyone a Joyful Christmas and a Happy New Year. 

Tree Planting 19/11/2011

A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who turned up to help plant the hedge row with the trees provided by the Woodland Trust and also to Ioan and Cath for stepping in to take the pictures as unfortunately our "official" photographer, was absent from the event (He was busy shopping for xmas then later on seen in a local pub :-).   
So a Big thank you for your efforts guys.
We would also like to thank the Swansea City Council guys that work in the park for clearing the strip of ground below the 2nd football field so we could do the planting.

We as a group would also like to wish everybody a healthy and happy Christmas and say that our chat and chop sessions will be taking a break over the winter months but we will resume these in the Spring.

Everybody moving at high speed :-)

Planting a tree.

Windsor (In Typical workers pose minus a Tea cup)

Our chairman Vyv (Pretending to look busy)

Snookie just found the day a bit tiring so opted for a lift

We would love more young people to come and join us your input is as valuable as the next persons.

Trees Planted each one is surrounded by leaves mulch to protect them from frost and surpress the weeds

Hopefully this will grow into a nice new addition to the scenery

One day this will be taller than the people.

We gave Joy the Honor of planting the Royal Oak.

The Royal Oak long may she grow

 

November Meeting

Our next meeting is on Thursday 24th November at the Pontarddulais Cricket Club.
Remember the start time is at 7.30.
Hope to see you all there.

Birds and other wildlife Of Coed Bach Park.

As you know we have 2 woodland areas in Coed Bach Park and there is an abundance of birds and and other furry little animals that live and pass through year in year out.
We would like to you photos of the wildlife in the park so pleas feel free to email your photographs to the group at.:- friendsofcoedbach@gmail.com.
Please do not replicate any images unless permission is given by the owner.




Our 1st 2 images were taken by Brian lloyd

Chaffinch

 

Nuthatch

Tree Planting 19/11/2011

The Friends have now received a pack of 105 All Year Round Colour Bare Root Tree tock from the Woodland Trust as part of the Trust's Jubile Woods Project. We will be planting them in the Park this weekend, starting on Saturday morning at 10.30. The Location is just below the football field. We hope that by creating a boundary hedge between the Park and the Old Railway Line we can help to minimise the environmental impact should the Pontarddulais By Pass Road be given the 'go ahead' in the next few years. All are welcome to join in the planting session.For more details please contact Chris the Secretary on 07890416892.

Update

We have some good news, the gorse is cleared and the lads have rotervated the soil so we can now go ahead and plant the Bee Friendly Plants we had from the Keep Wales Tidy Grant money.   So if anyone is free Saturday morning from 10.30, weather permiiting of course, we can go ahead and get these plants in.   

 

Our next monthly meeting is going to be in two weeks time on Thursday 24th November ! doesn't time fly.

 

Hope to see you Saturday and even if you can't make it but know someone who is interested in what we are doing tell them to come along and make themselves known because our next project is planting the 105 hedging trees that arrived today from the Woodland Trust including one "Royal Jubilee Oak Tree" from Her Majesty's forest. 

 

So all volunteers will be most welcome.