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Over the last couple of months, we have seen new volunteers join the Friends of Glen Goyle working party: welcome and thank you! Not only are they happy to roll up their sleeves, but they are actually very experienced and very knowledgeable about plants, gardening […]

We have reports from the field that young ‘tower of jewels’ have been spotted: 31st October 2024 – Friends of Glen Goyle The team of volunteers making up the Thursday morning FOGG working party found these, as photographed by John Hopkins: The website ‘Plants of […]

Today’s report on what the volunteers have been up to along the Glen reports on some nice pottering: 24th October 2024 – Friends of Glen Goyle And as any gardener knows, ‘pottering’ is essential to keeping both gardener and garden happy: The joy of gardening: […]

Fabulous news from FOGG steering group and working party member John McGregor this evening: I picked this certificate up earlier at the Sidmouth in Bloom Awards Ceremony… … There is also a glowing report from the judge/assessor, with feedback concerning areas for development There was […]

Now is the season for the ‘flowering’ of fungi – and Glen Goyle is providing quite a feast, as it does every year. Two years ago, members of the volunteer working party captured these: Fungi along the Glen – Friends of Glen Goyle And earlier […]

The Friends of Glen Goyle is well-established by now – having started as a germ of an idea and very small steps. One of those who was there at the start of the project is John McGregor, who has seen the project develop into what […]

The Bickwell Stream [aka the Wool Brook] runs through the Glen, rising just below Muttersmoor- and there’s a lot of history behind the stretch of water: What’s in a name? What to call the stream running through the Glen Goyle? – Friends of Glen Goyle There is […]

These September days have been glorious – and all of this wonderful weather can be appreciated in every corner of Glen Goyle. Here is a batch of photography from today, Thursday 19th September, showing the Glen at its best – from exotic tree ferns to […]

The District Council has just installed new benches in the ‘bench alcoves’ – both sitting nicely along the Bickwell stream weaving through Glen Goyle: The first installed bench, going up the brook. The second bench, on a gentle curve and before a gentle slope Installing […]

Looking at FOGG’s sister group, the Cherishing Sidmouth’s Cemeteries project, there are many things they have in common. Much of what each working party has undertaken has been about taking out strangling monoculture and bringing in greater variety, which should delight both human and wildlife […]