Busy Saturday morning as it was time to replant the big planters outside the dentist with winter flowering Pansies and Violas. Pat and Margaret spent all morning clearing out all the pots outside Ashbrook School and replanting for the Spring display whilst Simon cleared out and replanted the hanging troughs outside the Post Office. Also time for bulb planting in the Community Garden and Twin Gardens.

Lesley getting ready to replant

Simon digging more holes for bulbs in the Community Garden

Pat and Margaret hard at work with a bit of help from Simon

All done, ready to get home for a cuppa

What a lovely, sunny and fresh morning to get some work in! The group was busy doing some planting by the Post Office and weeding/tidying up the twin gardens. We put down a good layer of compost to break down over the winter, improve the soil and hopefully provide a lovely display next year. The planting there does mean we have year round interest however and it certainly improves the look of this part of the Local Park. Well done team TMAEG!

We had a really productive morning working along the Ashbrook corridor between Downland and the High Street. We cleared around the trees we planted in previous years and undertook a big litter pick, collecting over twelve bags of rubbish ! It was timely to meet up with our local MK Council street cleaning team who took all the rubbish away with them.
It was really upsetting to find a young hedgehog had died in a crisp packet – people who drop rubbish really need to know what damage their actions cause to wildlife !

Pat and Leo busy collecting rubbish,  Simon down in the stream bed collecting yet more rubbish !

     

Nicole, Ben and Chris trimming back around our trees

Lots of activity in the main park area and meeting up with our local council street cleaning team

   

Poor young hedgehog died as a result of someone dropping their crisp packet !

Busy morning working with Ray Cristoe to tidy up the Two Mile Ash Community Garden. We had a good turn out of volunteers this morning but can always use more help, especially if you live near the Garden and are able to give Ray a hand on a more regular basis.

Rex and Lesley                                   Linda hard at work                        Barry sweeping up

Some before and after views