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…
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 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…
Sunderland Street was watered and weeded this morning and the pond and beds watered in the Memorial Garden.
Some of you will have noticed the work being undertaken by the tree team. Ash die-back, the removal of the Witch Hazel by Sunderland Street, trimming of some of the lime trees ( which are renowned for dropping branches) have been dealt with in the last couple of weeks. One Read more…
A glorious Sunday was spent tidying up, weeding and watering. A new man was on thebin duty last week and misssed some of the bins but he will soon find out where they l were. Last week we lost half of an Acer negundo near the main entrance quite unexpectedly. Read more…
