01/06/13 - Working party

Well June came in flaming after all - I hope it continues for Beeston Festival next Saturday.

We had a working party at the Millennium garden to try and get the weeds under control. I think I must have pulled up enough sycamore seedlings to establish a whole forest - every time we go there's another plantation sprung up.



Linda and Susan are discussing how to fill in a few bare patches - I think we're going to need some more ferns and foxgloves - having cleared as much of the paving and daffodils as they could.



Frederick [and David who had left by the time I remembered to take any photos] did a sterling job of getting the weeds out of the bare patches so we could see how much space we had to fill.



And Pauline [and I] cleared weeds from the long borders and raised beds.

We have another working party on Sunday [9am 02/06/13] to clear the planters on Beeston Road.

There is a meeting on Monday night at the Watsonian [5pm 03/06/13].

Then it is Beeston Festival, where we have a stall selling plants, planters and crafts.

And after that we are in full swing trying to get ready for Summer Judging on Friday 19/07/13 with the following working parties already organised - however no doubt more will be added at Mondays meeting:

Monday 10 June - planting RHS veg etc on Beeston Rd - Angela and Adam to be our guest celebrities to witness the event!!

Wednesday 12 June - continue clearing Beeston Rd planters

Saturday 15 June - working party Cardinal Triangle - 10.00am

Sunday 16 June - working party filling Dewsbury Rd planters - 8.30 Tommy Wass

Aren't we going to be busy little bees. I must dash now - I have some cards to make.

Sara

A bit of a wash out

Happens to the best of us. 

Too few at the Monday get together to do anything useful and then Saturday (the rematch) was rained off, so this week it's Beeston in Bloom 0 : Weeds 2.

Linda and Vivienne caught a break in the cloud and tidied the vet's trough on Dewsbury Road and planted strawberries and chives.

Bit of bad news on the Leeds in Bloom front - they didn't cancel the Spring Judging - we didn't prepare -oops!

The sale outside the co-op was a reasonable success.

You'll notice that we were selling before we had time to put the sign up!

Lots of people are away this week so the meeting on Monday might be a bit sparse.
Have you noticed a clematis on the yard fence?  Have I been hacking at it thinking it was mile-a-minute?  Here it is in flower - not on the millennium garden side, but on the side facing the park - isn't it pretty?

Leaving it to the sun

It's been a quiet week but the sunshine has been busy. 

This is the blue bed in the millenium garden with the red behind.

 

And this is the red - I think the blossom is japanese quince - so there could be fruit for jam, come the autumn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one is a work in progress - dill from my seeds for the veg initiative in the front and behind are the cosmos for the Cardinal triangle. And you can just see some of the pepper and tomato for the plant sale on Saturday - outiside the co-op - see you there!

Barmy in Bloom

What do you call people who stand out in the rain for two hours selling plants?
Beeston in Bloom

As you can see, we did get a steady trickle of customers.  Luckily we were clearing up when the hail and freezing rain was turned on and so the plants we did not sell will be OK for the Co-op in a couple of weeks.
My seeds for the veg initiative are through, still not big enough to make a photo though.  I hope everyone elses are growing strong.

Vivienne and Linda have been busy

They tidied up the Lodge Lane Planter ready for Saturday's plant sale:











 

 and had a really good go at the Kwikfit triangle - named a bit like the Cardinal triangle.





Have you seen the Tommy Wass barrier troughs?  If not -here's a selection of views:

I think that the pinky flower is one of the ornamental cabages but I'm not sure.

I think that this last one would make a nice change of heading for the webpage - what does anybody else think:

Quick update

Judith has already blogged about the last two working parties - however I've just downloaded my photos, so I thought I'd belatedly share a couple more with you.

We had a working party at the Cardinal Triangle on 6th April and gave the grasses a good hair cut - we even divided some [well Frederick did], which we would not have been able to do if judging was still going ahead but by the time summer judging gets here [19th July] they will have recovered.



Then the following Saturday, 13th April, we had another working party to replant the divided grasses in the bowling green border. All the small grasses we planted last year were stolen so we are hoping that these larger grasses might be less desirable. They covered about the middle third of the long bed so the nice people in the parks department are going to turf the ends for us. If the plants remain undisturbed then we will extend our planting next year.



Whilst some of us were doing that there were further groups planting primulas in the planters on Beeston Road, taking out a pyracantha from the planter at the side of the park and also finishing off the Millenium Garden weeding. The latter was the group I was in so that is where my photo is from.



Christine and David are busy here planting some more of our recycled plants in the back border.

I noticed that the telecommunication boxes on Beeston Road have been decorated.



Don't they look pretty with foxgloves on them.



I especially like the one with the fairy.



Anyway that's me caught up I think. We have a plant sale at Lodge Lane on 27th April. The plant sale at the Co-op has been postponed from the 4th May due to absenteeism and I think it has been re-arranged for the 11th May however I will still be AWOL.

Our next meeting should have been 13th May [as the 6th is a bank holiday] however we will be having a working party in the Millenium Garden instead.

Sara