On Sunday 8 October, some of the Friends' committee, museum staff and local councillors met up and spent 4 hours pruning back the hedge between the museum and Chatsworth House, planting the 2 beds with perennials and trying to weed the mound where there's a huge tree stump. The photos give an idea of what went on, if anyone else has better ones, please send them to me.
Here are Councillors Nadine Watts and Jane Milner-Barry chatting over leaf collecting:
Some of the plants selected by Rosemary and myself to provide good displays over the next months we hope
Below Tracy White clearing up the mound
Rod Hebden and Martin Newman starting on the hedge
Rosemary planting up the bed beneath the tree
Planting in progress on the other bed
Rod beginning to put laurel clippings into black bags
The view from the museum we couldn't see before
A tea break
More bag filling
The extra car park and view when clippings had been removed
Jane hard at work on the mound area where we found a wall made of fossil rich rocks
Close ups of the beds when we'd finished
That is only the beginning of improvements to the outside area, we will be doing more sessions.
I didn't get any photos of the amazing cakes made by Olive Tree Cafe and brought round by Nicky Alberry who had been showing the model to people at a Christ Church #BacktheBid event.
I would also like to thank the gentleman who kindly offered Heucheras, Penstemon and Rudbeckias from his garden; I went round to collect them the next day, and they will be planted as soon as I am confident that they have rooted properly.
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