Bristol City Council Park Operatives manage several areas of work where heavy equipment, ladders and a trained workforce are essential. We are very happy to leave these tasks in their capable hands. We try where possible to work/co-operate with our Council colleagues to make these tasks run more smoothly.
Lawns
There are two obvious lawns in the south of St. Andrews, namely the site of the WW2 bombed out 1822 church and that of the demolished medieval church, long covered in grass and hedges. These are mown several times between March and October. In addition, in the north, there are stretches of grass on both sides of Birdcage Walk, with well-trodden foot paths and benches, interplanted with many mature trees and shrubs and scattered graves. This mixed tree/shrub/grass and graves area is mown/strimmed in late summer by the Council Parks team. The aim is to mow paths short and then vary the lengths of cut in other areas throughout around trees, benches and graves to benefit our insect population.
Trees
The 71 arched lime trees along Bird Cage Walk are pruned in late winter/early Spring. Our volunteers have helped collect the twigs as they are cut and stacked for collection. This is much appreciated by the Council work force and helps in recent times when staffing has been reduced.
Warn Bristol City Council via FixMyStreet if there are concerns, such as dead wood and damaged, dying trees.
Green waste
We produce a lot of waste such as bramble, tough evergreen spikey leaves, ivy and woody twigs which do not rot well in a conventional garden type ‘compost bin’. This green waste is collected into dumpy bags at each gardening session, hung up on railings under the Copper Beech and collected by the Council who try to fit in a regular visit when they have other work in our area.
Each Autumn we collect fallen leaves, destined for our leaf bin on the East wall.
Waste which is too woody and thick for the dumpy bags is stored in piles around the Cemetery.
Hedge cutting
Carried out annually for the hedges which mark out the old medieval Church.
L.A. Woodward 2026 rev 1