When you live on a piece of land you get to notice small changes and things out of the ordinary. Today, walking by the river I immediately noticed that a young oak tree of about 15-20 years old had been completely debarked by squirrels over the last couple of days. Once the bark and the [...]

Trees and Woodland at Gliffaes Of  the 33 acres of ground at Gliffaes a good deal of it is planted over with trees. A lot of this is on steep sloping ground where we are starting to thin out the hazel and sycamore which has been badly damaged by squirrels over the years. This will let the [...]

What an amazing Autumn..and still going on. It is the middle of November and the colours on the magnificent trees at Gliffaes are still something to behold. By rights we should have had a frost or two by now and most of the trees would have turned or dropped their leaves by now. However, the [...]