Wild Life Garden Projects
2018 – October _ Visitors to the Wildlife Garden.
14th August 2018 Many thanks to Paul who has helped these bees make a home in the Wildlife Garden. They are very welcome and brighten up the space. Perhaps they will tell their friends to come along and make their home here.The bees are not the only new visitors to...
2018-24th April – Spring Flowers to Cheer us ALL up.
24th April 2018 Colour starts to return to the Wildlife Garden. Grape hyacinths and primulas make a brave show. Is Spring really here?
2017 – September – Autumn comes to the Wildlife Garden.
As the temperature starts to fall and we get colder nights, the garden starts to take on its autumn colours. The gardeners are busy cutting back plants that have finished flowering and are generally tidying up the garden for the winter. We have started to feed the...
2017 – Spring comes to the Wildlife Garden.
The warmer weather and longer days are encouraging the plants to start to grow. We are delighted to see a few narcissi and snowdrops battling their way into flower. We look forward to more flowers showing themselves as the weather improves. Here's to a colourful year...
2016-October-WW1 Lest We Forget Remembrance Bench.
Earlier this year we put in a bid for a specially designed bench to commemorate 100 years since WW1. We were fortunate to get one of these benches. We think the Wildlife Garden is a good place to sit quietly and think and watch the nature around you. Today the workmen...
The Wildlife Garden in September 2016.
The garden is now looking very green. Most of the plants are doing well and we are very pleased with the first year's progress.
A place to sit and watch the world go by.
Regular visitors to the site may have seen that we only had a very simple bench in the garden and several people complained that they needed a seat with a back and arms to help them to stand up again. Now, thanks to the family of the late Mick King, we have a...
A closer look at some of our plants.
We are very pleased with the hostas which are flowering at the moment. They have benefitted from all the rain we have had this year and are flowering fit to burst.
2016- 18th July – Tidying up the edge of the garden.
When we were working with the volunteers on 8th July we were offered some chipped wood which was surplus to requirements at the building site on Three Sisters Road. Never being one to look a gift horse in the mouth we accepted the offer and a mountain of wood...