Fruit trees on Knighton Green Knighton Wild have recently been planting a number of Leicester Heritage fruit trees on and around the Green. As they mature these will in future years, provide blossom and fruit for both the community and wildlife alike. Heritage fruit trees were selected as many of them are now not considered […]
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New explanatory boards on Knighton Green
Three new boards have been installed on Knighton Green providing information about three areas that we have been developing over the years. The boards were funded by Saving the Saffron Brook and are the last instalment of their support for Knighton Wild. The boards provide information about each area with things to look out for. […]
Local Schools Hedgehog Event – 27th February 2024 – 17:30-19:30
Come to a free talk about Hedgehogs at Lancaster Academy, Knighton Lane East Leicester LE2 6FU on Tuesday 27th February. Tea, coffee, and light refreshments available from 17:30, with presentations starting at 18:00. Organised by the Sustainable Schoold Team, the meeting will hear from local hedgehog expert Bev Hart, and Paul and Janey who are […]
Parakeets in Knighton – Winter 2023
Residents who live on Welford Road between Aberdale Road/Overdale Road and Asquith Boulevard/Palmerston Way are no doubt well aware of their presence, but other people who live round Knighton may not know that up to 60 Ring-necked Parakeets or Rose-ringed Parakeets (Psittacula krameri) gather in trees on Welford Road every evening to roost. Ring-necked parakeets […]
The State of Nature in Knighton
People like simple stories portraying black or white alternatives. The natural world is rarely that straightforward… David Nicholls, one of the founders of the NatureSpot website, gave the inaugural talk to Knighton Wild back in 2015. Following the Knighton Wild AGM in November, Dave updated his talk to tell us “What do 15 years of […]
It’s Your Neighbourhood assessment 2023 -The result is in!
Nicky went to the Council’s award and celebration ceremony in early October to find out how we had been assessed this year. We were anxious that we could maintain our previous outstanding awards for another year. There are a good number of groups across the city that take part in IYN and Britain in Bloom […]
Tree Snot?
What is the source of this mysterious alien jelly in Attenborough Arboretum? If you’ve been missing Autumnwatch on the telly after the BBC cancelled it, you may have been catching up with Chris Packham’s free online alternative, 8 Out Of 10 Bats on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@8OutOf10Bats If you’ve been watching the series you’ll already know the […]
Connect with nature with our new bench on Knighton Green
The bench was made possible due to a generous donation from Jenny Darragh in memory of her husband Andy who was born and brought up in Knighton. You can read about Andy and Jenny here. The first job was finding a big enough piece of wood to make a suitable bench. There were no suitable […]
A new bench on Knighton Green: thanks to Andy and Jenny
Earlier this year we got an email from someone called Jenny Darragh in Canada. Her husband Andy had died recently and he had told her about growing up in Knighton in the middle of the last century. Jenny wanted to make a donation in Andy’s memory of a special place in his childhood. After an […]
Otter monitoring June 2023
The second otter survey of the Saffron Brook took place on Friday June 16th. The conditions were very different from the last time, there having been no rain for about three weeks apart from a heavy thunderstorm four days previously. The temperature when we started at 10 am was already 18 degrees and was only […]
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