Residents at Hanover Court just love getting together in their community garden. Contractors do the main jobs such as hedge pruning and grass cutting while residents plant annual bedding plants, care for a small herb garden, deadhead and look after the visiting wildlife.
Its a real social affair, during fair weather the residents enjoy tea on the lawn and the occasional BBQ.
Neighbours Trevor, Mags, Sheila, Val, Carrie and Eileen
plant and maintain the annual bedding plants including pelargoniums, dahlias,
and sunflowers as well as looking after the shrubs. Bird baths and a handmade bird house encourage
the local wildlife into the garden.
The wooden garden furniture was looking tired so a trio of residents
Maurice and Pat Wilby and Wendy Ellis got together to paint it.
We think the bench (pictured) is the same shade as the
recently re-painted Ham footbridge, and wonder if the residents were influenced
by it in their choice of colour? Wendy
says it was a complete co-incidence, it just so happens on the same day as the
bridge was being painted by volunteers she had picked up a paint pot in nearly
the exact colour!
