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…
The work on the Sunderland Street Entrance has been slow, but after 18 months since the loss of the poplar, we have planted a new rose bed with donations from our Councillors and the Council, and Weigela, Cornus, Sarcocca, Heuchera and Alchemilla from the Friends. Still more to do as Read more…
The council gardeners have completed the first grass cut of the year and the Parks Dept told us that they had 20 more roses for us. We picked them up on Friday and planted them this morning, mostly in the Sunderland Street Entrance, but 5 were put in the original Read more…
A glorious day today, the 18th. Last week the gardeners finished pruning the trellis roses and wisteria for the splendid show in a couple of months time. They also deep edged the flower beds in the Memorial Garden which the volunteers had weeded. They also cleared out the wood from Read more…
