Wild Life Garden Projects
2014 – May – Wildlife moves in.
Wildlife moves in When I got home from South Wales the trees had still not been cut down but now a tree creeper was nesting in the garden so there will be no tree felling until the autumn. This will hamper the development of the garden as I am sure that tree felling...
2014 – April – Ideas while on holiday.
Ideas A visit to The National Botanic Gardens of Wales in Carmarthen gave me some more ideas. Perhaps our garden will look like this one day??? Have a look on line if you can not go in person. Garden of Wales
2014 – April -Starting to plant the Hedge.
Protective hedge around the garden Last year we were been given some hedging whips. They are a mixture of beech, hazel and hawthorne. We used most of the whips to finish the Jubilee Hedge in the Nature Reserve but we still had some left over. We are now using these to...
2014- February- Making a Start as we mean to go on.
Old carpet keeps in heat & damp. The Friends built a composting area at the back of the garden using recycled wood. We feel that a good composting regime will enable us to put some organic matter into the soil. Although we were pleasantly surprised by the soil we...
Inspiration from the STRANGEST Places!!
That's Dedication! A few days later, while attending St. Helen’s hospital we saw that someone had used pieces of the old hospital buildings to build an insect house and other garden features. I did not have my camera with me and my mobile phone is so old that it does...
2014 – February – Finding Inspiration.
If someone else has a good idea why not steal it? February is not a good month to be gardening but we went on the hunt for ideas of things we could put in the garden. Graham Workman suggested that we go and look what another Friends group had done at Pennington so...
2014-February- Getting Permission.
Garden Idea Of course the land does not belong to the Friends and we needed to ask Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust [WLCT] if we could tackle changing this piece of land into a garden. A group of Friends met with Graham Workman, Wigan’s Wildlife Officer, and talked to...
2014-January- Making a Decision.
What could we do? In January 2014 I had my 70th birthday and my present to myself was to DO SOMETHING about this mess. I raised it at the next Friends' meeting and after some discussion the following idea was put forward. We would turn the area into a low maintenance...
First Impressions
A Neglected Piece of Land This is the ongoing story of a neglected piece of land facing the car park. It has long annoyed me as it is the first sight that many people see when they get out of their car. It has not been touched for many years and is head high in...