Windowbox Wildlife

A weblog that follows the natural biodiversity of a windowbox in Sedlescombe, East Sussex, UK from bare soil to wilderness. The project was started with sterile soil in the box in November 2005.

Saturday, January 07, 2023

The end of 2022

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I have done a Boxing Day (26 November) tidy of the window box ready for the New Year. I have coppiced back the sallow stems that died in t...

Thursday, May 21, 2020

A return to the window box

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For a variety of reasons I have been neglecting the window box for a number of years, but now I am back encouraged by people asking me about...

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Another sallow flowers

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This time some male catkins on what I identify as goat willow ( Salix caprea ).

Saturday, April 14, 2018

The sallows flower

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Two of the self-sown sallows in WBX are carrying flowers (because if forgot, or omitted to coppice them last autumn). I think this will do ...

Friday, November 06, 2015

Ten years and counting

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4th November was the tenth anniversary of this window box wildlife project. Generally speaking the box seems to have settled into a fair...

Friday, June 12, 2015

Fat caterpillar

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Noticing that the taller sallow was looking a bit shredded with some sort of feeding damage, I quickly found the culprit was the fat cate...

Friday, December 05, 2014

Coppice time

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In a brief spell of rather cold sunshine, I tackled the annual job of cutting back the sallows today. Before and after pictures below. ...

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