We unplanted the garden and took it back to Leeds today. All the other gardens were being taken to bits with mini diggers and resulted in skips full of stone and concrete, ours was a bit simpler! Ours just required digging up plants and putting everything in a van.
Everything has come back to Leeds and will be reused. The plants will get replanted, the bricks will get relaid, the seats are going on an allotment site, we think, and the turf is being given to some chickens!
Most of the plants are going to Cross Flatts park in Beeston. There's a nice shady spot near one of the entrances for the ferns and perennials, and the silver birch trees are going near the Millennium square bit. There's a few gaps to be filled with some of the perennials there too.
The 2 hazels and some foxgloves, ferns and Geraniums are going to a community garden in Cross Green.
3 comments:
Honestly
? What was the fucking point if you were just going to take it all to bits again. Unless the only reason you did it was for the medal... In which case its not really doing it for the community etc, and more for the reward you get. Get a life.
OMG - what a nasty piece of work "Anonymous" seems to be. That comment was TOTALLY unnecessary and out of order.
I've followed your project from the outset when you canvassed for support on the Beeb message board.
I think you achieved a fantastic garden - even though you didn't get a medal. (I think the RHS has very specific criteria for judging, and I doubt that your garden ticked enough boxes).
Anyway - you did what you set out to do. The garden will have had many benefits - inspiring some who saw it, and benefiting those who have use of the benches etc etc.
Well done!
PHJ
Thank you! We still haven't got feedback from the judges so we don't know what was actually wrong with it yet.
We planted nearly all the plants out in Cross Flatts Park today. It's a really nice park and they're looking pretty good there already.
Anonymous is a cheerful soul, eh? Um, it's a SHOW garden, the whole point is to, you know, SHOW, people it. Then take it to bits - because we can't exactly leave it at the NEC forever. A flower show gets over 100,000 visitors in 5 days, so it's a rather handy place to, you know, SHOW, something.
The aim of the garden was to inspire more people to volunteer and to show what a community garden could look like. You may notice that public green spaces are often a bit shit.
We wanted to inspire people to help create something better to improve their local communities, and showing 100,000 people an example of what can be achieved seemed a good way to do that.
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