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Category Archives: Gardening Work Parties
Gardening Group – come and join us
The Gardening Group is now meeting on the second Thursday of the month, from 1.30pm to 3.00pm. We undertake light gardening tasks, such as weeding, deadheading, pruning and ivy removal. Anyone is welcome to join in. Meet us at the … Continue reading
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Maintaining the roses
Roses need a lot of t.l.c. and the Friends group have been doing their best to maintain the 340 or so roses that remain in the park. These include about 230 around the edges of the rose garden itself and … Continue reading
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Gardening Work Party 19 January
The new roses we planted last March now need pruning, weeding, and feeding, to set them up for the spring growing season. (Hold on to that prospect as the rain lashes against the window!) So, see you all there at … Continue reading
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Hard Work Party!
Thanks to the terrific effort made by a team of valliant gardeners this morning, we managed to clear weeds from three of the rose beds, and do some deadheading along the way. Before and after pictures provided below!
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Garden Work Parties
Lots to do (as you have probably noticed). It’s an almost endless battle with the weeds. And many of the roses now need deadheading if they are to have a second flowering. Forthcoming work parties, all on Saturdays, 10.30 – … Continue reading
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Gardening Work Party 16 June 10.30
Bring your own tools (long-handled fork, secateurs, gardening gloves) if you have them. If not, we can provide them. We will, as usual, be weeding the rose beds!
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Beating the bindweed
The red roses next to the terrace were in danger of being swamped by bindweed, but an emergency work party on Friday 1 June rescued them. This is probably only a temporary measure, but at least it allows us to … Continue reading
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Beating the weeds
A successful work party on Saturday 19 May saw seven of us weeding and chatting (simultaneously) for two hours. Two huge barrow-loads of weeds and some much happier lavender and rose bushes was the result. Very satisfying. Next work party: … Continue reading
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Next Gardening Work Party!
Next gardening group: Saturday 19th May 10.30am meet at the Cafe!
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