Catch Up

As I've been on my hols [and managed to miss lots of working parties and meetings] Linda has sent me some photo's of what I've missed.

Linda and Angela accepting a nice cheque from Aviva.

Susan, Edna, Vivienne getting stuck into some weeding at the Cardinal Triangle. Everything was growing nicely in the mini heatwave - unfortunately the weeds were doing best of all.

David working hard to get something out of the Millenium Border.

And the results of his labours. And finally some more photos of our trip to Redhall before I went on hol.

Vivienne appears to be put out about something - Linda thinks it might have been the price of the sandwiches.

And a couple of photos in which I appear [I do prefer to be the one taking the photos]

With my trolley before I started shopping - just containing the hanging baskets Linda and I had planted up. Mine is coming on a treat, but I think I overstuffed it, there are 12 plants in it and it's not a large basket. Sara

05/05/12 Plant Sale

Well I got two things [at least] wrong in my last post - the title should have said April not March and the plant sale started at 11am not 10am. I did turn up for 10am but live so close I could walk home again for a while [I actually got some blocks moved from my front to back garden that I had been putting off for about a month so it was a productive half hour for me].

Whilst we were setting up we noticed drumming getting louder as it came towards us and then..

a group of men appeared accompanying a bridegroom on a horse [quite normal for Beeston] although we never saw any sign of a bride.

The plant sale went quite well - we were very busy for about half an hour and then not so busy and we planted a few of the unsold plants in the Lodge Lane Planter to fill in some gaps and hopefully reduce future weeding - and we managed to raise about £70 towards summer bedding plants for various projects. [still having a problem getting blogger to leave spaces] Sara

28/03/12 Trip to Redhall

A few of us had a trip on Saturday to Leeds City Council's Redhall Nursery for their latest open day. They mainly grow plants for their own displays and also the hanging baskets and bedding plants ordered by local in bloom groups - however they have to plant 10% extra to allow for poor germination etc so they usually have some excess plants to sell. This year we were slightly too early for the trays of petunias etc but I still managed to buy a few plants - even though I didn't intend to. Linda was more restrained.

There were a few more in my trolley by the time I went to pay. The hanging baskets were a bargain at £5, you planted your own and could put as many plants as you wanted in it. I wish I'd done two but that didn't occur to me until after I got home.

After the planting demonstration and shopping we stopped for refreshments at the cafe. The plant sale on Saturday 05/05/12 is at the Lodge Lane Planter at 10am.. Sara