The first February gardening session was devoted to preparing the beds and pruning. The second session followed up the work of the council removing laurels in the memorial garden in preparation for a new bed which one of our committee members has designed. The council have also been getting on Read more…
Glorious weather has brought out the first spring flowers. The little petticoat Narcissus, Narcissus bulbocodium and the native Daffodil, Narcissus pseodonarcissus, are out, along with the first of the spring narcissi. The Winter Aconites, that Simon the gardener planted some years ago are now doing well, and the snowdrops and Read more…
Happy New Year, Everyone. Now, while some of you were recovering from yesterday evening’s celebrations ( you know who you are, and so do we…) the rest of us were out sweeping the paths, clearing the pond and filters, pruning the Hydrangeas, and getting on with the removal of laurels. Read more…
In spite of the dreary morning ( I did want to stay in bed) we had an enthusiastic turnout of 10 and completed some serious work. The bed of the front garden has almost been completely weeded now and forget-me-nots have been distributed. A few bulbs are still to go Read more…
A glorious sunny morning ended with rain just as we had finished. 13 of us spent a couple of hours weeding and tidying the beds round the entrance and sides of the memorial garden, clearing the hard standing, and clearing the pond and filters of leaves. We also removed a Read more…
The gardening volunteers spend a good few hours a month in the park and have done for the last 7 years. So we decided to have a little gathering upstairs at the Pulteney Arms just to say thank you for all the hard work, and to have a gossip about Read more…
The threat of a miserable morning held off for an hour’s good gardening with 10 people turning out : Clearing the pond and filters, sweeping the paths and entrances at Sunderland Street and Henrietta Street, tidying up some of the perennial bedding plants and starting work on one of the Read more…
In spite of a gloomy start to the morning of the 23rd, it turned out sunny and we had a splendid turnout and achieved quite a bit towards our new forward plan which is on the website under gardening. The Box moth has devastated British Box over the last few Read more…
We had two excellent gardening sessions in August in spite of the heat. We have concentrated on the Sunderland Street entrance and the Memorial Garden. Watering has been an issue but most plants have survived. A number of trees have been taken down: ash has suffered from die-back and several Read more…
You will have noticed the flag put up a week ago. Maria, one of our regular gardening volunteers was up in London and volunteered to collect the documentation. Many Thanks Maria.
