Volunteers needed.

If you want to volunteer, then we meet on the first Saturday of every month.
Sian and Dave Turner are regular volunteers who help us in the Rose Garden.
Here you can see how messy this rose bed has become, full of a variety of weeds and clumps of grass.  They set to work with their trowels and forks.









They chatted as they worked, and were  joined by a few more volunteers.  What a difference in just two hours!
In this second photograph you can see how totally different this rose bed looks. Sian, Dave and Rob, clearly feeling a sense of accomplishment.

We desperately need more volunteers to keep on top of the weeding  of the rose beds. In fact, all the shrub beds and long border too.
If you can spare just an hour or two of your time to help out it can make a huge difference.

We meet once a month on the first Saturday at 10am and also at 10am every Monday, weather permitting.
We really are a friendly bunch and time flies when you have others to chat with as you work.
Please join us next time you have some spare time.  Remember the saying, " Many hands make light work!"

National Tree Week 2018

 As part of National Tree Week 1018, we met on the Oxton Fields on Saturday 1st December to plant a young oak tree.

Heather and David Alcock, together with their daughters Georgia and Rose, contacted our Friends group to donate their small tree.
Georgia Alcock, who will be eight years old in January, had picked up an acorn she found under a large oak tree on Wimbledon Common 4 years ago.  Her parents helped her plant and grow on this tiny acorn, which is now almost as tall as she is.

We gathered on the Oxton Fields to ceremoniously plant her cherished oak tree, which we hope will thrive and grow into a beautiful large oak tree for future generations to enjoy.
Georgia, along with her little sister Rose, got stuck in and helped with the planting.

Finally the young tree is in the ground and we all stood proudly around for a group photograph.
Hopefully Georgia and her sister will always remember this small oak they helped to grow and will return, perhaps with children of their own, to sit beneath the branches of a mighty oak, which they grew from one tiny acorn!