Yesterday, the church in Woodmancote hosted a plant sale. The original intention was to do this at the Woodmancote May Day event - this had been cancelled due to wet conditions. We managed to get Gloucestershire ECHO coverage in the paper, and yesterday we even got an ECHO photographer + reporter to cover the event! Not sure whether we’ll make the press but you never know. Plant sales totalled some £355, which will be used entirely to purchase food stuffs for the County Community Projects (
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As part of giving something back to the community I decided to take on the small garden frontage associated with the Doctor's surgery at the Greyholme practice in Bishop’s Cleeve. The raised walled garden was thick with ivy and hypericum and took quite a number of visits to clear out. A small square border area near the entrance was easier to tackle and I planted out some polyanthus bedding in early spring. This has now gone over and yesterday these were replaced by red + white geraniums (not yet in flower), and the front raised wall is planted up with red, white + blue petunias. See before and after pics below. I’m hopeful that the plants will bulk up and provide a jubilee themed show of patriotic colour from now until after the Olympics.. The Bishop's Cleeve street fair is on the 10th June, so the planting out was well timed!
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| Ivy & hypericum (before) |
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| Jubilee themed bedding |
