Gardening group - a sit down in the sun (with weeds)

On Sunday, a half dozen volunteers sat down on the grass in Jackwood and got to work on a bit of detail weeding.

We'd already done a first pass on weeding across most of the beds this spring, but there were two left. And those had a lot of the same thing in them - the cow parsley. We'd left the seeds on that for the birds to eat but sadly for us they'd not cleared their plates! That had left us with a beautiful green fuzz across those two beds, but also with a need to weed them urgently before the cow parsley shot up to hip height overnight.

Hellebores

More luckily for us, the birds had also not eaten all of the hellebore seeds - one of our volunteers kindly took home a handful of seedlings to pot up and bring back later. Fingers crossed that most of them take! And that some of them take after their prettier parent!

It was a beautiful spring day - and we all ended up sitting on the grass and chatting while we worked. A good few passers by stopped to chat, and everyone had a lovely, relaxing morning - not quite our usual, but a nice change!

Rather more leisurely work than normal!