Lop til you drop

14 Goodgymers helped their local community in Hounslow
Anastasia Hancock
Will Yates
Michelle
Emily Oldfield
Eloise Carey
Lucy Hill
Leticia Bessel
Alan Armstrong
Sevan
Augustin Lagarde
Ariane Dean
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Hounslow

Wednesday 30th July

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We had perfect conditions for our return visit to Chiswick House last night, which was good news as we had a huge job to do!

The carriageway into the grounds is lined with beautiful plane trees. Fun fact - did you know London Planes can grow to 35 metres and live for several hundred years? Which means they need a bit of care and attention.

We were met with Chris, Chiswick House's gardener, who explained the job was to cut away the shoots from the trees' trunks. Or epicormic growth, if we're being fancy!

We cleared away the clippings and then got to work giving the trees a good pruning, able assisted by Chiswick House's excellent range of dog visitors.

There were some excellent techniques getting as much as humanely possible into the ton bags, and some very professional lopping on display too. Great work everybody!

Next week we're back to do one of our favourite tasks - washing the Turnham Green mural. Fingers crossed the weather is kind to us...



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