EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS


Introducing new colours was important to me to liven it up for the students and Fellows and I think that is important because you could see the reaction from people once they saw it and saw what the potential was


” Scarifying the Fellows’ Bowling Green


new colour scheme too, which students and Fellows appreciated.”


“Introducing new colours was important to me to liven it up for the students and Fellows and I think that is important because you could see the reaction from people once they saw it and saw what the potential was. Even if you did the bedding schemes with slightly different views, not just annual plants, but think what a half hardy or subtropical would do and plant some bananas or a castor oil plant. People see those changes and then you get the response of ‘you’ve really turned that around, that’s freshened it up’ and that’s because it got stale, because if you repeat it the same as it’s always been it fades, and it becomes a safe bet that isn’t exciting anymore.”


The Fellows’ Garden


“The feel of the place is far more immediate now and I think, when you do bedding schemes and things like that, it keeps on changing and is different the following year. You could say that the feel of it changes because the way it looks and


The feel of the place is far more present now and I think, when you do bedding schemes and things like that, it keeps on changing and is different the following year


” Burrell’s Field 56 PC December/January 2019


develops. We can be proud if we’ve made a difference.” Tom has introduced bench seating beneath the old horse chestnut tree in the circular plot of grass in the centre of New Court. These benches are accessed by granite setts; by next summer, wildflowers will bloom, providing a haven for wildlife - and a pleasant spot for students, staff and Fellows. Tom has achieved significant improvements in the gardens at Trinity - new planting schemes and seating being just a few of his many changes. “You could see from the reactions of students and Fellows that they appreciated these changes. In some beds we’ve mixed half hardy and tropical plants -such as Abyssinian bananas and castor oil plants - for summer planting schemes, and that’s really got a positive response.” But it hasn’t all been plain sailing. At a College whose history dates back 700 years, there can be tension between tradition and modernity. Only Fellows can


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