Protect and Conserve Oxleas Woodlands

Shepherdleas Wood Tuesday, 18th November, 2025 Eleven volunteers turned out for Tuesday’s session.  That’s another whopping 33 hours of work and it meant that great progress was made on restoring the wildflower area across from the bridge separating Eltham Park South from Shepherdleas Wood.  Again, our aim was to get more light to the woodland floor by removing holly, as well as reducing compaction and fragmentation in the area, which has been caused by the narrowing of the m

Jackwood House Garden   Sunday, 16 th November 2025   Our second session this month was a typical, dull, damp November day but our seven, determined gardening volunteers were not deterred and got to work with gusto. Jackwood House Garden - The Fountain - swamped with vegetation.   As usual, we divided into two separate groups:  four people got back to work on the terrace area, continuing the super work they had started last session - trimming back the wisteria on the right-h

Friday, 14th November - Cancelled Jack Wood - Wildflower Area - Lower Path Having carried out our first autumn session in this beautiful woodland area on the edge of Oxleas Meadow, we were looking forward to a second session to finish clearing the holly stand, before moving on. But…the weather had different ideas!  If there is one thing you can say about our weather, it is changeable from day to day, and as the week went by, it looked more and more likely that we were going t

Oxleas Wood Saturday, 8th November, 2025 This weekend’s session marked an amazing milestone in the history of the Shooters Hill Woodlands Working Party.   It is exactly 30 years this week since the very first woodland conservation session took place in the woodlands!   Even more impressive is that Laurie Baker, one of its members from day one, continues to run sessions, as well as sitting on the committee of The Friends of Oxleas Woodlands.  His valuable contribution helps us

Six of our volunteers spent a grey and drizzly afternoon hard at work in the garden. While some of the group puttered around in the flowerbeds planting some extra bulbs and tidying up a little bit, three brave souls carried on with our most mammoth task to date - the wisteria.

We got a start on coppicing in the 2025-26 coupe. Most of us had met up only recently for training - we were joined by some of our other regular volunteers, who include both coppicing novices and people who have coppiced extensively at Woodlands Farm and at Scabry.