Sunday 27th July
Report written by Ben Foster
Stefanie (plus Greg) and Ben dropped into the Shakespearean Garden in Platt Fields Park to help set up for their National Open Garden Scheme open day and Fallowfest ๐ณ๐๐ฑ
Aided by the garden volunteers, we successfully managed to clean and dust down 49 chairs for the seating in the human sun dial square, where a harpist was playing for part of the day.
We managed to set up some of the plant stall, borrow several tables and benches from MUD for use on the cake ๐ stall and the sketchbook stall, put up 3 gazebos plus a big marquee along with Gavin from the council, and generally help out to ensure the site was ready for a flurry of visitors at 11am ๐ช
There was also a mobile piano ๐น shed that needed moving into place that was played throughout the day.
At the end of the day, while England ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ were playing in the Euro final against Spain ๐ช๐ธ, there was also some clear up to put gazebos away, benches and tables folded and stored, and the chairs put back under cover for another day.
Sounded like a popular and successful event from Kattie with the cake stall sold out and a busy event. Happy to help out for a local, community-run group ๐
The concept of a Shakespearean Garden was first developed in Victorian England with the idea of creating a garden with some, or all, of the trees and flowers mentioned in the Bardโs works. With strong links to the suffrage movement and Edwardian society our garden opened in 1922 and was rescued from near obscurity by volunteers 4 yrs ago.
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