Bramcote Hills - Spring In The Park
w/e 26 March 2023
All of this week's pictures were taken with a Nikon D3300
We were passing through Bramcote
so decided to pop into the park for a short walk (very short)
to see if spring had arrived there.
There's a grassy bank at the edge of the park along Ilkeston
Road and would recently have been covered with flowering crocuses.
The flowers have now all gone but the leaves are still there
and there are now also several clumps of daffodils.
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Most of the trees are still leafless but this sapling was braving
the cold and was starting to blossom.
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The fenced enclosure in the centre of the park protecting park
users from the potential falling space of a 200 year old tree
was planted with woodland bulbs in 2007 and managed as a wildflower
area. Sadly the tree fell in 2012 but has been left to decay
naturally. To mark the 35th anniversary of twinning with Stadt
Gütersloh, two beech trees were planted in the enclosure
and now in the spring of 2023 daffodils are forcing their way
up through last autumn's detritus.
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At the far side of the grass area (away from the road) the wooded
area appears to be underlined with a ribbon of more daffodils.
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We crossed the grass to the edge of the wood and it's here quite
apparent why the park is called Bramcote Hills.
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We followed the path through the trees back towards the car park
but turned right to the wallaed garden.
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More of the spring flowers were tumbling down the hillside and
flowing over the wall on the approach to the Walled Garden.
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Conveniently situated at head height the beauty of the daffodils
could be fully appreciated.
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At the far end of the Walled Garden even more daffodils were
visible from the arch marking the end of the garden and reminded
me of Wordsworth's poetic "host".
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No visit to Bramcote Hills Park and the Walled Garden would be
complete without a pause to view the Holocaust Memorial Returning
sculpture in the garden and, of course, the Hemlock Stone across
Coventry Lane on Stapleford Hill opposite.
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