Wild Life Garden Projects
2015 – June – A step nearer.
June 2015-Success at last. During the last few months I have been busy trying to get some money to spend on the Wildlife Garden. I have filled in lots of bid applications and at last one of these has been successful. Wigan Council's Deal for Communities has awarded us...
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....
2015-May 17th- Digging the garden.
Digging out the Weeds The area we had dug over in the winter is now covered with annual weeds. We have started to re-dig this area and put in a few plants to see how they grow. We submitted a bid to The Deal for some money to construct solid paths in the garden but...
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-November 9th-Workday.
Extension to compost bin The morning was bright and sunny and five Friends met on the car park to work. A young man arrived to ask if he could help us as he is just starting to do his Duke of Edinburgh award and he would like to volunteer at the Three Sisters....
2014 – June – Work on Wildlife Garden.
More Work on the Garden We finished planting all the hedging plants that we have but we will need more to hedge the side facing the car park. We continued to dig over the land. This has not been touched for at least ten years and is full of roots so digging is very...
2014 -June – Insect House Gift.
Ben's Bug Hotel The grandson of one of the friends has kindly given us a superb insect house to put in the new Wild Life Garden. Thank you Ben. We look forward to the garden being ready to receive it.
Estimates and funding.
Finding Estimate for Path Construction I have found two sources that may be interested in giving estimates to construct the paths. I've eMailed them. Once I have a price I can get to work raising some funding. In the mean time I have spoken to one of our Councillors...
Access for All.
Access for All If we are to enable everyone to use the garden we will need to put in a decent, wheelchair friendly path. This needs to be at least 1.2m wide. With the help of Lydia and her team of volunteers we pegged out the proposed path. It seems to be taking up a...