Tag: Bradley Stoke in Bloom

An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Our community herb garden has had a spruce up, as have our welcome planters. We had given up waiting for our planter at the Aztec Roundabout to be put back in place, so Andy and I did it ourselves, which was no mean feat. Even Andy wondered just

An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. What we lacked in numbers on our June workday, we made up for in other ways. We spent the morning at the Willow Brook Centre, tending our planters in the town square. Our heuchera planter is doing well, now all the vine weevil larvae have been removed, and

An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. I’m sure many of us will have been out tending our own gardens over the last few weekends, so I hope you will give some thought to entering our annual ‘Best Front Garden’ competition. 2015 was our third year running this competition and although we only had eight entries

An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Primrose Bridge Last year we planted daffodils in the banks of Primrose Bridge but this year we took full advantage of Almondsbury Garden Centre’s primrose week and planted quite a few primroses! We hope you enjoy them. Further along Bradley Stoke Way, we had planted a mix of

An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. The Common East We have, for the moment, finished our work at The Common East. A new path has been laid, the original gate has been moved, the orchard cleared, the seats repaired and painted, dead trees have been removed from the path’s edge, the pond has had

An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Palmers Corner What a difference a day makes! Last month we reported how disappointed we were with the state that ‘Palmers Corner’ had been left in after Western Power had been cable laying in the area. We complained on the Monday, by Tuesday we’d had three replies, by Wednesday

An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Palmers Corner We have been very pleased with our ‘Palmers Corner’, not only with its vast improvement but, whenever we are working there, the number of people who come over to say thank you. Although SGC have yet to give us permission to take over this patch, or

An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Brook Way rose bed We took on this rose garden (near the doctors’ surgery) as one of our first projects and have been rather pleased with its improvement, although the area does take up a lot of man hours with pruning, planting and weeding. After many long hours