Sometimes the workers need a break: a mathematician, an ecological conservator, and an agronomist exchange notes while taking a breather from the hard task of removing laurel stumps. We hope to clear this by the end of the month and plant with sage bushes in preparation for a sundial Read more…
Thursday 13 th Feb, we had a splendid turnout from Your Park Volunteers with Carol Sgtone and Mali Kedward, to provide a dead hedge to fill in a gap in the boundary hedge on Henrietta Mews. Great Job 🙂
Another surprisingly decent morning’s gardening with 10 of us out despite the apparent gloom. 100 wood anemones planted in the woodland bed in the Memorial Garden, and the roses in the Sunderland Street entrance have been pruned. We will be going out next week to discuss tree planting with the Read more…
A man on a bike with a trailer stole all but half a dozen of the logs that we had cut on Thursday morning between Thursday evening and Saturday night. He was seen, and we know he went down the canal towards Bathampton. I cycled to Claverton just now but Read more…
George came and cut the logs into manageable sections for us. And several people have suggested we make a walkway out of the smaller ones. We will come up with a plan :–)
The proposed bed for the memorial garden, designed by one of our members, has been implemented by the council. The laurels were removed and the roots grubbed out by FoHP and the Council two years ago. This year FoHP dug the bed and sowed an annual wild flower mix from Read more…
A splendid days gardening saw 14 of us out for Sunday Morning., with a good clearout of the Sunderland Street entrance. You might notice fewer weeds and the roses dead headed, but also a transplanting of several white Borage plants which should come into flower soon. These have reseeded themselves Read more…
Thanks to the awareness of one of our members, Fiona, we have a range of new tools for the Park obtained from the generosity of people on local donation sites who have them to spare. Now we have a wider range of hand tools for all to come out and Read more…
A splendid morning’s work was completed in glorious sunshine. Sunderland Street, which has had new Cornus bushes planted, donated by the council, was mulched, weeded and watered. The rest of us spent time in the Memorial Garden weeding and watering. Goose grass and Bindweed are the worst of course, Many Read more…
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…
