Projects
2023 -18th March – Free trees from the Book Cycle.
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 -2nd. March – Planting Hedges.
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.
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...
Grow Green Project 2021
Starting the Project The Hamlet has been closed during the pandemic lockdown and during this time they have had a new entrance constructed on the lake side of the building. This entrance has a ramp to allow easy access for wheelchair users and people with prams. At...
2015-June 14th-Work day-Making a bug hotel.
Bug Hotel During the past few months we have been collecting things to make a BUG Hotel. We used information from the WildLife Trust to construct our Bug hotel from recycled items. You can find this here. Or just search constructing a bug hotel for much more...
1st -8th May 2015- National Volunteer Week.
National Volunteer Week It is National Volunteer Week and a group of Wigan Council workers turn up to the Three Sisters to volunteer their help. One group set off and cleared litter from the edge of the lake while another group helped to dig over the Wildlife Garden....
2014-7th December – The Big Tree Plant.
Fruit Trees Red Rose Forest have given us 10 mixed fruit trees to add to our Community Orchard. They are apple, pear, cherry and plum trees and are about six feet tall. The weather on Sunday was cold but sunny and we were able to get the trees planted. We also did...
2014-30th November-Workday-The trees are down at last.
Work in the Wildlife Garden. We were supposed to be having a Big Tree Plant today but despite putting up posters we had no members of the public for this event. SO--- we decided to re-advertise it and move the event to next Sunday 7th December. The Friends who turned...
2014 – February Working Weekend making floating islands.
Making Floating Islands Our cloud making Friends were preparing for the working weekend. On 15th. & 16th.February a group of Friends constructed floating islands, fish sanctuaries and small pontoons and put these on the lake. Plastic bottles were filled with...