by Joy Winstanley | Apr 5, 2023 | blog |
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,...
by Joy Winstanley | Mar 31, 2023 | blog, Projects, Wildlife Garden |
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,...
by Joy Winstanley | Mar 31, 2023 | blog |
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...
by Joy Winstanley | Sep 22, 2020 | blog, Wildlife Garden |
2020 -Gunnera Flowers. Some years ago we found this plant thrown into a skip. We knew it liked wet conditions and so we planted it in the bed next to the pond. This year it has grown and flowered and we are so glad we rescued it. It is magnificent. We just hope we can...
by Joy Winstanley | Jul 12, 2020 | blog, Wildlife Garden |
JULY 2020 One day when we were working in the Wildlife Garden a man arrived and asked if we would like an owl! We discovered he had carved a beautiful owl and he fixed it to a tree stump next to the Bug Hotel. THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL...
by Joy Winstanley | Jun 17, 2020 | blog, Wildlife Garden |
Once the lock down had been lifted we could return to the Wildlife Garden as long as we obeyed the ” keep your distance” rules. We found that the garden was looking very green and overgrown but it still looked beautiful. If you click on a photo below you...
