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Our aim at Fringill Beck is to encourage wildlife and to conserve the area as a natural environment.
Our work is continuing apace. We have been fortunate to receive advice from several sources: Nidderdale Rangers, RHS Harlow Carr and Flora Locale; and they helped us to produce a plan for Fringill. We aim to terrace one side of the beck, which will enable us to plant a wildflower area. We hope to colonise the steep side of the beck with native ferns. The border by the steps will become a mixed border of garden plants, chosen specifically to attract wild life. The far end of the beck is beautiful in the spring with snowdrops and primroses and we shall leave grass and nettles there in the summer to provide a habitat for butterflies and moths.
In February, Colin (Nidderdale Rangers) helped us to clear the steep side of the Beck, removing brambles and a woody, gorse bush.
We began to plant the steep bank with native ferns and dug out the gigantic bulrushes that were too tall for their situation and that had overwhelmed the margins of the beck.
Then we started the terracing. Gordon is a local landscaper who constructed the steps for us some years ago. We think he''s done an excellent job with the terraces.
In March, we dug and weeded the terraces.
Finally, we planted hundreds of wild flower plug plants.
Every little helps!
And stood back to look at a job well done!
April has been a fairly dry month and we have had little rain, so we''ve needed lots of help with watering.
In June, the Brownies planted their sunflowers in the border at Fringill.