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Calloways Lane Restoration
Calloways Lane Restoration
Calloways Lane Restoration Project
Clearing Calloways Lane
Metal Detector and Other Finds
Tree Planting and Grass Seeding
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Tree Planting and Grass Seeding
Location: West Sussex
The trees that formerly lined the lane were English Elm. Unfortunately, these had all succumbed to disease. As this is a conservation area, serious consideration was given to the type of trees that should replace the dead Elms. As there are no indigenous disease hardy Elm trees, it was decided to plant a mixture of red and white Chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum and Aesculus camea briotii.
At the southernmost end of Calloways Lane there is a small marl pit which has now been cleared and will hopefully become re-established as a pond. At the edge of the marl pit we have planted a Salix sep. Crysocoma or Weeping Willow, which should provide some shade over the pond.
Volunteers undertook the task of planting and staking the new trees.
To provide a surface for the footpath, we seeding the lane with Pro Flora 10 Country Meadow seed. This consists of 95% grasses, (Browntop Bent, Red Fescue, Crested Dogs Tail, Meadow Fescue, Smooth Stalk Meadow Grass and Yorkshire Fog), and 5% wild flowers, (Birdsfoot Trefoil, Black Knapweed, Black Medick, Common Vetch, Meadow Buttercup, Musk Mallow, Ox-Eye Daisy, Ribwort Plantain, Red Campion, Self Heal, White Campion, White Clover and Yarrow)
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