This week five volunteers took a trip to Winterbourne where we were shown round the Monkspool and Bradley Brook LNR’s by Frank Smith who founded the reserves over thirty years ago. The weather was fine and the trip most enjoyable. The Winterboune reserves score over BS in two significant areas. One they have no Japanese Knotweed AND they have very little Himalayan Balsam.
Frank believes that the Bradley Brook reserve which was set up as an arboretum now has a specimen of every native tree with some particularly fine Field Maples and White Poplars. The Bradley Brook was alive with deep blue Demoiselle damselflies and the whole area very pretty.