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The Polmadie through the seasons

One of my favourite features in my local park is the view over the Polmadie burn from the small Jenny’s bridge, located at the junction between the burn and the river Clyde. After I moved to Glasgow I started observing the park changing through the seasons and recording the species I found there to familiarise myself with my new surroundings. When I began writing this blog, it naturally ended up being the source of inspiration for many of my posts. You might remember a homestead design project I made a while ago, when I imagined a house in one area of the park and designed the main outline of a food forest following a holistic approach to land management and home food production. More recently, I mentioned the park again when I wrote about the highly invasive triad made up of Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera), Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) and giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), the damage they were causing there and the announced re-designing of the entire area. Two months into the project and from what I can see at least half the trees in the park seem to have been felled. The view you see above has not been touched yet, so I thought it would be a good idea to complete this photographic series now and make sure I remember the Polmadie I got to meet on my first day living in Glasgow.