This review is solely for killerton woods part of killerton house Devon.First walk in Killerton woods for a long time, we went to see the bluebells. These woods I have played in, gone on training runs and now at 75 have been walking for over 63 years. What a disaster. the National Trust has decimated. Where there were carpets of bluebells there is only a few trying to push through the stinging nettles and brambles. The sides of the walks, where there were rhododendrons is now 3/6 ft high in brambles. Shame on the National Trust and whoever ordered the culling of the rhododendrons saying they were not a native species. Native or not they aided the growth of all the wild flowers, keeping brambles and stinging nettles down and also added to the colour and beauty themselves. What we have left now is a mess of what was beautiful walks overtaken by brambles and nettles not allowing anything else to grow.Michael May National Trust member
