Making progress...

"Today we thought it would be a good idea to do the rest of the garden, as it is an excellent day. We weeded the pots to enable us to put new flowers in them. We brushed the moss of the ground to make it look presentable. We then walked to the local town market, where we picked up some flowers for the garden. We choose different types of flowers but kept to a colour coordination theme of blue, pink, purple, red and white. We are now waiting for another nice day to plant the flowers in the pots that we have prepared."

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Look at this beauty!

This is our one little touch of colour in the garden at present. But lovely, don't you think?

Started the big clean up!

"A few of us went around the garden area this morning picking up the rubbish which people from the railway platform next door have inconsiderately thrown over the fence! It took us a while to get used to being watched by the people waiting for their trains, and we felt a bit stupid at first, but we collected three or four black bags of Fruit Shoot bottles, old cigarette boxes and carrier bags.

Hoping for more sunshine tomorrow!"

Helen

This is what we've got at the moment...

The story so far...

A very quick post to tell you what we're up to and what we've done so far.

We've done a lot of waiting for the rain to stop...

We've been to the garden centre to price everything up.

We've asked for, and been awarded - thanks, Youth Opportunities Fund! - a grant of just under £1000 to buy the items we'll need to make the area pretty and productive.

We've had a chat with our local gardening expert on the best way forward.

And today, we'd planned a visit to a local park which boasts greenhouses, a 'savage' garden and a demonstration garden, but it rained. Again. So instead, we bought more stuff, borrowed some gardening books from the library and started work on our 'gardening project diaries'. We'll be so well-prepared by the time the sun appears!

That's it from me. It's over to the students from now on...