6 awesome GoodGymers teamed up on a beautiful sunny evening to help Caroline from the Friends of Lordship Rec pull up thistles from a meadow area.

We donned our gloves (and then donned a second pair of gloves) and got to work pulling the thistles up by the roots. This is to prevent the fast-growing thistles dominating the meadow area and outcompeting other wildflowers.

After pulling up some thistles, we already saw the signs of buttercups, bedstraws and knapweed coming through which will provide lots of colour in the future as well as providing food for our minibeast friends.

Thistles are good for nature too! And the other side of the path we left another meadow area where the thistles will be allowed to thrive for ladybirds and butterflies to enjoy.

We piled the pulled thistles high in the compost bin, Nurjehan came up with this week’s pun, and we made our way home admiring some hidden street art on the way!