Open day Friday 9th May

Local residents are welcome to come along to our open day on Friday 9th May 2008 10.30am - 1.00pm. Meet the designer, enjoy a tour of the garden, take part in creating a tree mural and find out about volunteering opportunites to help maintain the garden. Refreshments provided. Welcome speeches at 11.00am.

Planting the garden

14 volunteers from the Green Gym worked hard again in April planting up the woodland, storytelling and sensory areas. Plants include foxgloves, bugle, flowering currant, buddleia, pyracantha, thyme, oregano, honeysuckle and jasmine. The volunteers also made some homes for ladybirds and lacewings out of bamboo sticks.

An update on the garden and our most recent event

The Green Gym were busy again in March, putting in benches, trellis, pergola arches, a bird table and seats in the storytelling area. There was a fantastic turnout and everyone worked extremely hard, and it looks brilliant! Planting will begin on 9th April.

Our own seed planting and garden trail event was very popular with 21 children attending, aged between 3-11 years. It began with stories about plants and sunflowers in our newly created storytelling corner of the garden, before planting 'Russian Giant' sunflower seeds to grow on at home. There will be a prize in the summer for whoever grows the tallest sunflower.

Parents and children then took part in our garden trail, finding the answers to questions about the folklore of plants that will feature in the garden. Someone also spotted a blue tit who was making a nest in one of the 3 nest boxes in the Silver Birch tree.

We received some lovely comments about the garden and the event. Click on the Comments link in the previous entry to read them.