Friends of Canbury Gardens

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4 GoodGymers have supported Friends of Canbury Gardens with 2 tasks.


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Kingston upon ThamesCommunity mission
Claire DunneJulie

Spring Pruning 🪻🌷

Saturday 15th March

Written by Claire Dunne

On a lovely Spring morning Claire and Julie undertook a very delicate task to prune the Salvias and hydrangeas being careful not to step on the springs bulbs that had sprouted in the GoodGym flowerbed.

The pruning should help us get bushier plants with lots of colour in the Summer. We also removed a large amount of leaves giving the bulbs some more room to breathe.

There will be lots of opportunities to volunteer at the flowerbed across the Spring and Summer so keep an eye out for these.

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Kingston upon ThamesCommunity mission
Claire DunneJulieStephanie VisserSabir Babaiy Majdar

A Spring 🌷🪻 in our step for Autumn 🍂

Saturday 12th October 2024

Written by Claire Dunne

On a lovely Autumn morning Claire, Julie and Sabir welcomed Stephanie to her first GoodGym mission at the GoodGym flowerbed to prepare it for winter.

Sabir got straight on with clearing the leaves whilst Claire, Julie and Stephanie tackled the weeds.

Bed tidied it was time for the fun part of planting all the spring bulbs. We planted lots of daffodils, tulips and alliums as well as a random selection of bulbs left over from Claire’s garden last year.

The last job was the hardcore gym part of our session. It involved 3 people walking along way through the gardens to the woodchip pile where we filled massive buckets up with wood chip and then walked them back. Having completed 3 runs we decided we’d gathered enough and hope to have a wheel barrow for next time.

The bed is looking lovely and should provide lots of Spring colour. 🌷🪻🌷

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