Bluebells are out!

Taken on May 2nd.

Neil, unfortunately I have not yet had that walk, but the leaves have only just come out!

Walking the wood

Did you ever have that session with the lady over the road to walk through the wood and identify what was there? I can't remember whether she suggested waiting until things were in leaf or not.

Love the picture of the anenomes!

Neil

Tanglewood April 4th. '08

Friday March 9th

Popped over with Pa in the afternoon. Bluebells beginning to green up the woods floor. Anenome leaves visible. The Hornbeams are just beginning to break open their buds into tiny leaves and the Sycamores had one or two leaves about an inch across breaking from top-most shoots. The whole area close to the road has many sycamore saplings about 4 foot high. The wild daffodils have come out at the far end of the wood and a few primroses are showing.

From 1982/3

looking down into the valley from the top left corner of the wood

as you enter the wood, shed far left.

Plant list

A list of plants we have found so far: Ash, Birch, Buckthorn/Hawthorn, Butchers Broom, Elder, Wild Cherry, Hazel, Holly, Hornbeam, Oak, Yew. Bluebell, Wood Anenome, Honeysuckle, Primrose.  EC 4/3/08.

Google Maps

I searched Google Maps for a picture of Tanglewood. Put in Beresford Lane, Plumpton, Sussex, UK to get there. Then click the Satellite button in the top right hand corner.

The maps don't display properly on my machine (I think that it is a bug in the software) but it might work on yours. Worth a try anyway. I can see the house but not the whole of the lane -- it will only show a diagonal strip across my browser.

Some local surveys and reports on woodland

Tanglewood falls into the East Sussex council strategy on woodlands (PDF)

Although Tanglewood is not in the area covered by this Mid-Sussex report it has good reading and some history of Sussex woodlands. Ancient Woodland Survey (PDF)

Also here is the relevant section (Low Weald) of the East Sussex landscape assessment (PDF) that gives a broad context of woodland in the local environment

Local area map

Area around Tanglewood - you can see the other woods around

Just adding a picture of Pa measuring up the wood, Christmas eve 2007, he is at the top right corner of the wood. E.

photos

If anyone has any photos send them in

Alison arrives

Today we went over to see Tanglewood. The bluebells were pushing through the ground a couple of inches and the daffodils mainly in patches down the far end were 6 inches or so high. We had a look where the shed used to be - just the brickwork for the base remains. Late winter sun shone through over the trees next door.

The cherries near the road have mostly all fallen down but some other plant (hornbeam) is growing in that area around 6' high. We atlked about a position for a new shed a bit further away from the fence and further in as it would have a nicer view of the little valley towards the far end.