Brotherton Park and Dibbinsdale Local Nature Reserve
Happy New Year
Join us in a Wassail in the Walled Garden
Saturday 17th January 11am- 2pm
Join the Friends of Dibbinsdale, Wirral Tree Wardens and the folks from the Wirral Poetry Festival in this ancient tradition of blessing fruit trees to ensure a bountiful harvest in the year ahead.
There will be poetry, music, tradition, and community spirit. Refreshments available, donations to Friends to support upkeep of the walled garden and Dibbinsdale.
Everyone welcome, please dress up warm, bring instruments or something to make a noise to wake up the slumbering apple trees.
Where: The Walled Garden, Dibbinsdale Local Nature Reserve, CH62 2BJ
Very pleased to see that we are centre stage in the award of Wirral as Tree City of the World! All of the photos were taken in the section of our walled garden that has been fenced off as a community tree nursery. Some of our volunteers, seen in the photos, also double up as tree wardens. Other volunteers have also pitched in unofficially to keep all those saplings watered throughout the dry season. The goal of using locally sourced native tree seeds for developing Wirral woodlands is ambitious but important to preserve some of the local tree gene pool. Also helps guard against importing new tree diseases from other areas
We had a visit from Cllr Brian Kenny, the Wirral Mayor to celebrate the award of a green flag. Congrats to Ste the ranger who somehow manages to juggle his work between here and Royden and still have a smile on his face. And of course he couldn’t do his job without the help of all the brilliant volunteers who turn up every week whether it’s cold and wet or, occasionally, a heatwave.
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Brotherton Park and Dibbinsdale
Located on the Wirral Peninsula between the Mersey and the Dee on the eastern side, near the Mersey. Brotherton Park is the former parkland surrounding the site of a Victorian “Villa” named Woodslee. It has many fine exotic trees and a walled garden containing an orchard & tree nursery. Dibbinsdale is the valley containing the river Dibbin. Once the boundary between the Saxon South and the Norse North. It is now on the boundary between urban housing and farmland. It consists of an SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest), Ancient Woodland, reed beds and a meadow field.
Be aware that if it has rained heavily in the previous 24 hours some paths, especially the tunnel under the railway can be many inches deep in water & the path surface damaged.
