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The Cyril Hart Arboretum
The arboretum is named after local historian and forestry expert, Dr Cyril Hart. The collection started in 1910 and contains over 400 trees.
It is situated on the B4226 Coleford to Cinderford road close to the Speech House.
OS Grid Reference: SO624118
Volunteers meet at the Arboretum on the first Thursday of every month at 10am
We have done 3 years of work at the Arboretum (October) and have made real progress
To see the pictures from the first year - Click here
To see the pictures from the second year - Click here
To see the pictures from the third year - Click here
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Volunteer Group Diary
2 February 2012
The temperature on this day was -2 degrees although the sun was shining all day. A very large branch had cracked off one of the Redwood trees so this provided the fuel for the fire!
So we spent the day clearing up fallen branches, removing the bracken and checking the fences (Sheep had come into the Arboretum from the Speech House fields which is not a bad thing but, if the sheep can get in - so can the boar!)
5 January 2012
The start of 2012 was in the midst of ferocious windy storms so there were quite a few fallen branches to clear up. Old brambles were removed from the tree enclosures. The image displays a bird feeding station near to the main gate and plenty of people regularly supply wild bird food which has the small birds appearing to the table all day long.
5 December 2011
We spent the day clearing up many fallen branches and removing some wild holly trees as you can see in the photograph above. The views through the trees in the Arboretum are much more open now.
From January 2012 we will be meeting on the 1st Thursday of every month at 10.00 am (not the Monday anymore)
7 November 2011
As you can see, the photo this month is of the Arboretum gate! This is because the gates have been weighted to make sure they always close. We have had a problem with the wild boar getting into the Arboretum and digging up the grass and we need to keep them out as they consume a large amount of bluebell bulbs which would, eventually, result in no bluebells to be seen in the Arboretum. Hopefully, this will do the trick!
The team spent time burning off many fallen branches. We also had the use of a Forestry Commission GPS gadget and were able to log every tree which had a plaque in the Arboretum. This will now provide an accurate map of the trees for future reference.