With the help of two brilliant conservationists and some great weather, I had another session at Warnham Green, this time building a dead hedge. Gathering material cleared by volunteers last week, and prepared in the interim by our hard working conservationists, we set to the patch of green by the pavement at the bottom of the slope.

This area has been much maligned, by dumping of green waste, plastics, nitrous canisters and other problems. It's also overgrown with brambles and nettles, but still gets trampled in winter. Our aim was to thin the weeds, give more space to the lovely white comfrey growing along the roadside, as well as the lesser celandine scattered through the patch, and to clear up some of the junk.

And, of course, we built a dead hedge! This will help drive footfall around the edge of the patch, so the flowers we're trying to help flourish don't get trampled.