Work started in September 2021 to create a wonderful wildflower strip in the church yard of St. Thomas’. This is located adjacent to the Forge Carpark fencing close to the rear entrance of the surgery. Once the top soil and rubble has been removed we will plant native spring bulbs, sow a variety of wildflower seeds and plant climbers on the fence line. This project is kindly being funded by St Thomas’
The site before work started with rotten tree trunks, a large buried, spiked, iron railing, a lot of rubble and buried litter.Work starts on clearing the ground in October with help from some of our Facebook followers and members of the church.Good progress being made on a weekly basis. You can see in this photo a concrete path under the fence. This runs the full length of the strip and made us have to rethink our plans for climbersSowing the seed mix after the spring bulbs have been planted. You can see our solution to the concrete path with little bridges build, hopefully the Wild Sweet Pea will find it’s way across and up the fence Sowing the seed mix after the spring bulbs have been planted. You can see our solution to the concrete path with little bridges build, hopefully the Wild Sweet Pea will find it’s way across and up the fencePlenty of litter and glass found. A crisp packet from 1962 and an old Co-Op milk bottle amongst itWe had a lot of rubble to do something with, rather than landfill we built two hedgehog houses in the churchyard, one covering a premade house and one from scratch, fingers crossed for visitors in 2022 We had a lot of rubble to do something with, rather than landfill we built two hedgehog houses in the churchyard, one covering a premade house and one from scratch, fingers crossed for visitors in 2022We also built a leafmould-crate in the church yard, it’s now full of Autumn leaves and will hopefully give us lovely compost in a couple of years time. Many thanks to the church for allowing this.Our work in the church yard helped St. Thomas’ achieve their Bronze Eco Award and of course we are continuing our partnership and hope to see new of the Silver.March 2022 and the native wild daffodils are in full bloom and the rest of the strip is doing so well. We’re really excited to see it come to life over the next few months
