Giving nature a helping hand
You’ll see teams of volunteers and staff removing Himalayan balsam and pennywort to support the biodiversity of the wetland and river habitats on a Monday and Wednesday throughout spring and summer.
We also clear path edges to make sure you can walk along them with ease and with the added benefit that wildflowers, providing food for butterflies, thrive in the shorter grass. Longer grass offers shelter to field voles and water shrews so it’s important to keep a mix.
To allow fish to breed in peace in Morden Hall Park we enforce the traditional closed season for coarse fishing from 15 March to 15 June inclusive.