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Community Garden - The Place to Be! as a salty deterrent. We would be grateful to hear from anyone who can recommend wild-life friendly approaches to this perennial problem. A red-headed cardinal beetle is just one of many species to visit the garden. The pond attracts all sorts of wildlife visitors and is a magnet for photographers in the spring and summer when dragonflies and damsel flies are on the wing. We would like to thank the Friends of the Garden for their support and are planning several visits to other local gardens in the spring and summer.
very two years the Garden organises Kingsbridge Open Gardens – it raises funds for St Luke’s Hospice and for the
garden which is totally self-supporting. Already over 20 gardens have are lined up for this year’s event in June. Groups of students from the Community College come all year round as part of their citizenship programme. They get their hands dirty with tasks such as sowing, growing and pruning as they learn what it means to be a volunteer. Links to the Nursery next door Our most frequent visitors are children from the nursery. Apart from their daily visits to explore and learn about nature, they also come for special events such as last year’s Fun-time. Members of the U3A Painting group spent “two enjoyable afternoons painting in various corners of this delightful garden. They reported enjoying the birdsong and tranquillity right in town; with a warm welcome and a mug of tea plus a bit of sunshine . . . and hope to return in the summer” The garden works closely with Gold-winning Kingsbridge in Bloom. Last year the judges praised the garden highly and were delighted by the “gloriously colourful compost toilet”. This year we are experimenting with various forms of Slug control – these include beer (so they die happy) and seaweed which acts
Dates for your diary Bring and Buy Plant Sale Saturday May 7th , 10 – 1. Kingsbridge Open Gardens - Saturday and Sunday June 11/12th, 1.30 – 5.30
www.kingsbridgegarden.co.uk
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