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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It’s Your Neighbourhood assessment 2023
Each year we get a visit from an It’s Your Neighbourhood assessor to look at our work on Knighton Green, St Mary’s churchyard and Carisbrooke Road triangle. This year Liz Fairfield was our assessor and visited on 31st July and met Nicky, Marietta and me. The Saturday before the visit a group of volunteers worked […]
Getting the meadows ready and an interesting find
If you have walked through Knighton Green recently you may have noticed a rectangular bald patch on the edge of the grassy area. This is not a case of creeping alopecia but the start of what we hope will be another swathe of summer colour. On Saturday 15th April a small band of volunteers set […]
Saving the Saffron Brook works on Knighton Green
Over the last few months (December 2022 through to March 2023) Trent Rivers Trust and Leicester Environmental Volunteers have been working on and around the watercourse as it passes through Knighton Green. Trent Rivers Trust have been contracted by the Saving the Saffron Brook project to carry out works on the watercourse of the Wash […]
It’s Your Neighbourhood assessment 2022
Each year we take part in the RHS It’s Your Neighbourhood scheme which encourages local groups to green up their neighbourhood. Leicester City Council encourages voluntary groups to join in and each year the project is visited by a trained assessor in late summer to review the group’s achievements. The scheme is not competitive but […]
Putting the meadows to bed for winter
September is the time to tidy up the ancient meadow in St Mary’s churchyard and the newly sown ones on Knighton Green. This year most of the cutting was done by Uta who brought along her scythe for a more peaceful and quiet working experience for the volunteer team. Uta is a good teacher and […]
Knighton Wild volunteers help lay a hedge at Aigburth Care Home
The volunteer gardeners at Aigburth Residential Home and Dementia Unit on Manor Road, Oadby have been delighted to welcome Knighton Wild members into the garden on a mission to create three dead hedges and to ‘lay’ a 40-metre stretch of beech saplings. The hedge-laying was achieved on two Saturday afternoons in February and March. With […]
Sowing the pictorial meadow on Knighton Green in 2022
This year we have sown the annual meadow with a new mix from Pictorial Meadows. It is called Dragonfly and we hope it will provide pollen and nectar throughout the spring and summer through to the first frosts in autumn. Pictorial Meadows describe this mix as “Inspired by the iridescent dragonflies that we love to […]
Volunteering in Knighton Spinney – Geoff Whittle reports
Weather permitting, the Spinney will reopen to the public between 10:00am and 1:00pm on Sundays, starting 20th March. I hope visitors will be cheered to see all the woodland management work that has been carried out by volunteers. Twice weekly volunteering sessions were held from January to March. The invitations were issued through Leicester Environment […]
Traditional hedgelaying in St Mary’s Churchyard
Hedgerows are an important habitat for wildlife providing food, nesting and hibernation sites for a large number of birds, insects and spiders. They also provide cover for species like voles, shrews and hedgehogs moving between feeding sites. They are a man made habitat. Over 200,000 miles of hedges were planted under the Enclosure Act and […]
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