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2023 – 4th April – Work in the Wildlife Garden.

by Joy Winstanley | Apr 5, 2023 | blog | 0 comments

4th APRIL 2023  We start to work in the Wildlife Garden. It is a beautiful sunny spring day and the year’s work starts in the Wildlife Garden. HOWEVER when we arrive we see that the mallards have been to work before us. One nest is tucked under the hedge,...

2023 -18th March – Free trees from the Book Cycle.

by Joy Winstanley | Mar 31, 2023 | blog, Projects, Wildlife Garden | 0 comments

MARCH 2023 At the start of the month I applied to The BOOK CYCLE for some free fruit trees. We were allocated five trees and went to the BOOK CYCLE at Beechhill on 18th March to collect them. We got three plum trees and two apple trees and on the next work morning,...

2023 -14th March – Work on the Wildlife Garden.

by Joy Winstanley | Mar 31, 2023 | blog | 0 comments

THE GARDEN GANG have been hibernating through the winter. We have met up several times to drink coffee and plan what we will do in 2023. Once the new year arrived we used any ‘Good Weather’ days to start on these plans. The first thing we plan to do is...

2023 -2nd. March – Planting Hedges.

by Joy Winstanley | Mar 30, 2023 | Grow Wild, Projects | 0 comments

7th. March 2023 The council have given us some hedging plants, hawthorn and blackthorn. We decide to improve the hedge along the car park side of the Wildlife Garden and when they grow larger these plants will provide both food and shelter for the birds. We used some...

2023 – 21st. February – The Garden Gang continue to work on the Grow Green Project.

by Joy Winstanley | Mar 30, 2023 | Grow Wild, Projects | 0 comments

21st. February 2023. The weather is dry and the group pruning the fruit trees are aiming to finish this job today. A few of the Garden Gang have also turned up and spend their time tidying up the front garden by removing any plants that have died since we last...
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