Categories: Restoration
      Date: Nov  7, 2008
     Title: Lower Cascade

The Friends applied for a grant from Kirklees Environment Unit to help with the cost of restoring the Lower Cascade.  We have received £750 for the cost of plants.  The area was overgrown with brambles and the rock face was covered in ivy.  Luke of Beneficial Tree Care has cleared the ivy, Andrew Morris the Kirklees gardener has applied systemic weedkiller to the brambles  and volunteers have cleared the area of vegetation in readiness for planting.

Supported by Kirklees Environment Grant Scheme.

The Friends applied for a grant from Kirklees Environment Unit to help with the cost of restoring the Lower Cascade.  We have received £750 for the cost of plants.  The area was overgrown with brambles and the rock face was covered in ivy.  Luke of Beneficial Tree Care has cleared the ivy, Andrew Morris the Kirklees gardener has applied systemic weedkiller to the brambles  and volunteers including the community service unpaid unit have cleared the area of vegetation in readiness for planting.

Anne Dalley (landscape architect) designed the layout and we will shortly be planting the area with irises and ceanothus which, when flowering, should give the impression of a blue pool.

  11 January 2009 volunteers commence planting.