Work alongside the park rangers to help improve Wollaton Hall and Park, by helping out with the following tasks.
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Lastest Friends of Wollaton Park, and wider park news.
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Dead Hedge
A part of Digby Woods is used by the park staff as a compost pile, collecting brash from around the park as part of general maintenance. Once fully rotted, the compost is used in places such as the Long Border in the Formal Garden and the Walled Garden. To prevent the compost pile from spreading […]
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Many Hands…
A fantastic turnout for this Wednesday’s gardening session, with over 40 volunteers to prepare the formal flower beds for the summer. The regular volunteers were joined by corporate teams from Experian, Capital One and Freeths. Tasks included clearing the winter bedding plants, ready for summer bedding, preparing the flower beds, and starting the summer planting […]
Read the Nottingham Post Article on Wollaton Park: With the cost of living on the rise, many people are looking for great ways to entertain their kids without breaking the bank – and one Nottingham venue seems to be offering just that. Wollaton Halland Deer Park attracts visitors from not only across Nottingham – but the […]
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Green Blobs
Have you seen the green, pebble-like blobs in the lake? Kitty, a Volunteer Park Ranger describes it as “Ophrydium versatile”, a colonial freshwater organism. To form the balls they group together and live in symbiotic association with “chlorella” (green algae), where they both benefit from the interaction. The algae photosynthesise and share some of the […]
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Wollaton Arts Festival
The Wollaton Arts Festival comes to Wollaton Park on Sunday, July 9th. See the Wollaton Arts Festival website for more details.
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Top Picnic Spot
Wollaton Park ranked 4th in the UK’s list of top Picnic spots by You Magazine. These are the UK’s most popular picnic spots.
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Dead Fence
A new conservation task has been scheduled for Saturday, June 24.We plan to create a “Dead Fence” to partition the area on Digby Avenue used by park staff to put brash to rot down into compost for the gardens. Please let us know if you plan to attend, so we can have sufficient tools available.
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Dawn Chorus
Wollaton Park opened at 4:30 m on Sunday May 7th, for the RSPB International Dawn Chorus Day A sample of the sounds (credit Colin Robbins): Local resident Wendy McDonald reported hearing the following birds – all before breakfast in the cafe at 7am. Many thanks to the Park staff for rising early to open up […]
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Leave Wollaton Park Deer Alone
A concerned Nottinghamshire Live reader has voiced fears about people getting too close to deer at Wollaton Park.
There are no scheduled dates for Saturday conservation tasks during the summer. The programme should recommence in the autumn. We may run ad-hoc tasks if the opportunity arises, they will be announced here and on Facebook. Thank you to everyone that has supported us thus far, and look forward to reconvening in the autumn.
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The Old Rose Garden
There are old photographs of the formal garden showing an area to the side of the Camellia house full of roses. As the trees grew the area became unsuitable for roses, and the plants slowly deteriorated and most were removed many years ago. Friends of Wollaton Park planted the box hedges several years ago, and […]
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£450,000 for Hall Repairs
More than £450,000 has been awarded to Wollaton Hall for water damage repairs at the historic landmark.
Eight volunteers braved the cold, in what turned out to be a lovely morning in the park. The ranger-led task was to clear the Rhododendrons from the conservation area by the Red Phone box. Why did we remove Rhododendrons… “Where conditions are suitable, Rhododendrons will out-compete most native plants. It will grow to many times […]
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War Memorial
A new page has been created on the website about the 508 War Memorial.
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Website Launched
The website was launched via Facebook and Twitter.