Community Garden
Our Community Garden is split into eight areas:
1) The Green – our shop window to the community, where activities and events are held throughout the year.
2) The Memorial Area.
3) The Allotment, where most of our vegetables are grown.
4) The Patio Garden, where a range of scented flowers, climbers and espaliered fruit trees can be enjoyed.
5) The Wildflower Banks, where native hedgerows and flowers thrive.
6) The Woodland Garden - an area for children to make their own.
7) The Orchard, with fruit trees, where the grass is left to grow and wildflowers flourish.
8) The Vicar’s Garden - part of the whole garden, with a separate patio, allowing some privacy for the Vicar.
How The Memorial Area Came To Be
In 2019, a donation was made to St Edward’s in memory of Lyn Banbury, a lovely lady who lived in the parish for many years, who sadly passed away in 2018.
With the agreement of Lyn’s family, the church trustees decided to use the money to brighten up the front of the church with some plants. Things literally grew from there!
It’s now a wonderfully colourful space, where you can sit and relax on the Memorial Bench. It’s centrepiece, a Jacob’s Ladder plant, named aptly after Jacob in the Bible, who saw angels climbing a ladder stretching from the earth to heaven.
Our Vision
Our vision of the Community Garden is based on the the word REAP:
R for Relaxing. A space anyone can stop and sit and be part of nature for a while.
E for Educational. A place to learn and enjoy growing vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers.
A for Accessible. Everyone is welcome.
P for Productive. A direct source of flowers for the church, and fruit and vegetables for the Foodbank.
Contributions To/Volunteering At The Community Garden
Contributions are welcomed in the form of monetary donations, plants/cuttings or time helping to keep the garden blooming. To allow as many people to be involved as possible, there are no minimum or maximum donations. It’s thoughts, not amounts, that count.
As many plants require certain types of soil and prefer to be planted at different times of the year, please do contact us before you purchase any flowers or shrubs for the garden, so that we can make sure they have the best chance of growing well.
If you’d like to be involved in keeping the Community Garden thriving, please join us! We meet weekly as below:
- Tuesday 13:30 - 16:30.
- Friday 10:30 - 16:30 (with a break for lunch).
For more details, please contact Neal on 07484 218 429, email [email protected] or just turn up!
Pictured: Flowers in garden, wildflower banks, table flowers from garden, Neal - Community Garden Manager