More bulbs!

Thanks to Nottingham in Bloom who donated 555 tulip bulbs we were digging again!

TEF have also now installed a wendy house for the children which looks lovely.

If it goes to plan then we should have purple, red/orange tulips and a variety of daffodils.

Planting bulbs

A lovely sunny day for gardening!

Leaves everywhere as usual so we started out by tidying up.

In preparation for the garden open day next year we planted 350 bulbs, there is now a right selection of slides, one for all sizes!

Bethan took the leaves away for composting so everything is nice and tidy.

Ooh look at those lovely boots fran! Nice look going off from Francois!

Some of the pansies are still growing

New slide

Today we had a new slide to add to the garden very kindly donated by Noel and Pam from Sherwood Sunrisers Rotary club.

The sunshine was out so we continued to sweep and tidy. Next time we will be putting in the bulbs ready for the spring time. The birds looked happy as we left to see their food had been filled up!

The other garden!

We worked on the other garden out the back today, it had about 5mm off moss growing all over the paving so we jet washed and weeded and are quite impressed with our efforts!

First thing this morning...

...2:30pm!

Time for a shower as I smell like a pond!

Sunshine at last!

A lovely morning for gardening with the sunshine out and some music to give us a bit of a boost-although christmas songs were a bit strange!

There were 10 of us so tidying up didn't take us long and gave the committee chance to get together afterwards for a 4 hour meeting!

 Just need to find some more shade loving plants so that they will grow well under the trees

Either the birds have gone on their holidays or a mystery person has filled up this seed!

If anyone has anything they would like to donate to the garden then please contact us.

We have plants!

Thanks to Matt and Floralands we have around 25 plants to put in along with others that Rotaractors donated and that John Clifford had grown for us, so we can bring some color to the garden.
Archie the gnome has died in a tragic accident so we were all very sad and need an Archie II!

Some of the seeds we planted have started to grow so hopefully next time we visit things will be a bit more established. If you have any plants to donate then please contact us nottsrotaract@hotmail.co.uk

Planting seeds in the sun!

We have never had such great weather and built up a real sweat tidying up and planting lots of seeds by the side of the building.
Now we have the table and chairs we all had somewhere to sit for a rest. Hopefully the sun will keep shining so that all the seeds come out as now all the daffodils have gone the garden is really lacking in any colour or plants!
The birds are still gobbling up all the seed. Next time round we hope to take a look at the other little garden and do some tidying there.
If anyone has any plants, seeds or bird food to donate then it would be much appreciated.

Lucky we have an automatic setting so everyone can get in the picture!

Our lovely bench

The seeds are in there!

Tidy up!

The only bit of bad weather all weekend and we get it. Oh well it didn't stop us as we dead headed the daffodils and tidied up.

Tha birds have apparently been flocking to their new haven and have eaten all the seed.
Visitors have been commenting on how lovely the garden is so we just need further funds to continue with planting for the summer.

Garden Open Day

What a fantastic day, the sun was shining and everything went as planned.
We had lots of cake, a tombola, an easter egg hunt and book sale.
A great way to celebrate the work we have done on the garden and to share it with others. Thanks to the mayor the evening post and everyone else who came along and made it a really successful event.

final prep

On Sunday we all got together to do some final prep on the garden before the open day this Saturday.
So we jet washed, weeded, tied up plants, put up the bird boxes and generally made it all look lovely!
Hope to see as many of you as possible at the weekend.