Ecology at ITB

Ecology study of ITB

In the Hortoculture part of the college they study all things to do with the college wildlife and plants, like the relic hedges and treelines, which cover the whole outside line of the college. They are all part of the life cycle of the area which used to be called buzzardstown a long time ago. The soil is organically rich and old which allows for a variety of 5 mushroom type to grow around the college and Litchen grows on trees around the college in a small grove of trees in a part of the college most students don’t go to. There is also a mixed grass species around the college called Rhinanthus monor, yellow rattle flowers and myosotis arvensis, most of these can be around around the college you just have to roam around the back fields

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Another Area is called scrubland which is a green oasis, the oasis helps provide shelter and food, the bramble shrub helps support blackbirds, thrushes, starlings, robins, chaffinches, mice, foxes, and many other small animals and mammals as they would eat the fruits. For the foxes it provides a safe shelter, the plant changes over time, there is flowers in May to September and from august to October there is fruits for the animals. There is also a wet grassland which is part of local canal which is home to bulrushes and sweet flowing grass, both float above the water and give cover. All and all the ecology/horticulture section of the college just wants to provide a safe and beautiful environment for the college for years to come