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A wonderful Gift to the children of Halesworth!

31/1/2017

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Jane Stewart of East Gate Preserves presenting to Gillian Coulson Leader Halesworth in Bloom Children's Gardening Club a wonderful young healthy medlar Tree.

The MEDLAR TREE  Mespilus germanica  has been cultivated at least since the Romans but probably for around 3000 years  Its a small slightly crooked growing tree with a divine flower loved by bees but with a strange looking fruit likened to a cat's bottom and smelling like rancid wine?
​Why would such a strange fruit be of interest to children?
Jane gave us lots of reasons not least learning about grafting, planting trees, watching them shoot, pruning. drawing the flowers and trying out jelly making to have with chicken of pork or more exotics like the wild boars of suffolk or game birds.. Jane's passion for Medlars has led her into a highly successful business venture and if you can make it selling medlar jelly and cheeses then you can make it with anything!
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Great use of a slice of trunk!!

29/1/2017

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An excellent example of putting something that could have been disposed of to good use.  Our throw away society can make it so easy to forget the value of raw materials, but recycling and correctly disposing of items can all contribute to a more positive environment.  Never lose sight of Hope.
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Signs of Spring in our romantic old Cemetery

29/1/2017

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Snowdrops are our most romantic wild flower and there are thousands of them in our closed cemetery behind the fire station. Come and help Linda and the team reveal more under brambles on Tuesday 7th at 9.30 am. Bring heavy boots, gloves and pruners or loppers
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New Cut   New Garden New Look!

28/1/2017

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This garden belongs to the end bungalow on Norwich Road. It has been sponsored by the Cut Arts Centre. Don't forget The Cut has an amazing programme ansd anotheer wonderful place for a cup of coffee.
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Our Joseph Hooker Bicentenary and other Plans 2017

27/1/2017

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Joseph as a young man sailing round the Antarctic
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See the cross legged man with whiskers and jaunty hat you may find him set up camp on the Millennium Green early on July 2nd
JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER BICENTENARY
Joseph Dalton Hooker born 30th June 1817 in Brewery House now Hooker House Halesworth
We are determined not to let the bicentenary of Joseph Hooker’s birth go unmarked here in Halesworth and we want to have a focus weekend of events and exhibitions around 30 June 2017.
Our plans for the Joseph Hooker bicentenary, shared with the Director of Kew Gardens, include:
 
  • A special New Town Trail booklet on the Hookers with an inset on his Bicentenary with help from Kew. With further information on Joseph Hooker, Map of Park and trail, World map with Joseph’s Journeys and information on New plants names and information, as advised by Kew and specialist growers Guided walks weekend 30- 2nd July and Heritage Weekend 7- 10th September & other times
  • Chelsea School of Botanical Art Exhibition of Botanical Art inspired by Joseph Hooker Friday Preview Friday 30th June, and open 1st - 19th July, Halesworth Gallery
  • A Scientific Literary Luncheon, in Association with Kew, and Presentation by Virginia Mills from Kew with a star guest to introduce advised by Sir Patrick Bateson FRS & John Burton WLT.at The Cut Arts Centre with an exhibition of flower paintings by Sally Marlow from live specimens of plants with Hooker nomenclature grown here in Halesworth
  • A coloured Montage on the window recess at the side of Hooker House with new planter and appropriate planting to mark the Bicentenary with layout provided by Kew. Unveiling am Sunday 2nd July
  • New planting in the Joseph Hooker Memorial Garden; we already have 40 plants with the name Hooker within their nomenclature, which are labelled and a new information board.
  • Edgar Sewter Primary School Children (260) will walk the trail on the Hookers around the town prior to researching about him as a local hero during the Spring Term and will produce art work specially framed for a school exhibition. Selected pieces of art work will be on how at the CUT Arts Centre for the Joseph Hooker Bicentenary Literary Lunch
  • Children’s imaginary portraits of Joseph and William Hooker will be on Exhibition in Halesworth Library -Library Children’s Sunday Activity Club
  • An exhibition on Joseph Hooker in conjunction with the World Land Trust and the Linnaean Society and Kew.
  • A Joseph Hooker Walk within our Green Flag Halesworth Town Park, with associated planting in association with Kew of Rhododendrons and other plants first brought back by Joseph Hooker
  • Planting, with Anglia in Bloom and pupils from Edgar Sewter School of a memorial tree for Joseph Hooker – either Giant Redwood or Hooker Oak.
  • Millennium Green ‘Scientific Camp’ Hooker Style with Flora and Fauna foray on Sunday am
  • Fundraising Hooker Bicentenary Mugs and Tea Towels designed by Susie Bailey with pictures from Kew Kew.
  • Accessing Sponsorship and other funding to Commission of A bronze/or resin life-size sculpture of Joseph Hooker for our Hooker Arboretum. Contacts to Hooker descendants via Kew
  • Or Christopher Mills Former Director The Herbarium, Library, Art And Archives  suggestion of £3000 copy of Kew Bust in Library & Archives Foyer.
  • HIB Party attending Joseph Hooker Celebration Conference and Exhibition at KEW on 30/6/17
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Halesworth in Bloom’s other plans include:
  • Continuation of the ten-year programme of town bulb planting (3,000 per year) now in fifth year.
  • Maintaining and improving all communal areas that HIB is now caring for: Market Place & Thoroughfare planters, Community Herb Garden, Memorial Garden, Halesworth Station, Town Park entrance beds, Hooker House planters, London Road recesses, Queens Road entrance bed, the Drought friendly award winning sponsored Roundabouts, Old Town Sign planters, Halesworth Closed Cemetery, White Beds and hanging baskets
  • Delivering on the Town Park Five Year Action Plan – information boards, seating and entrance notice board and signs. Working to retain our 20016/17 Community Green Flag Award.
  • Creating a Town Park peripheral walk with replanting of memorial trees and new Joseph Hooker associated plants for the Town Trail on Joseph Hooker
  • Supporting and developing our Children’s Allotment Club, Halesworth Second Brownies, Scouts and other children’s groups.
  • Entering and participating in Anglia in Bloom events thus raising the bar in all three areas: Horticultural Excellence, Biodiversity and Conservation, and Community Participation.
  • Supporting Beech House Alzheimer’s Garden, The Limes sheltered housing Gardens, the Conquest Art Gardening group and the Millennium Green Volunteers.
  • Continuing the Halesworth Open Gardens scheme to raise money for charities.
  • Continuing the Lesley Pyke Awards assessment for Best Front Garden, Best Business Frontage, Best Open gardens, Best Children’s Project, Major Contribution to Halesworth in Bloom & Student Bursary Scheme
  • Improving our fundraising activities and support from Sponsors.
  • In 2018 Creating a Floral Welcome to Halesworth from Saxons Way clearing brambles and overgrowth alongside footpath on West, replanting with Flowering Cherries and defensive ornamental shrubs from World Land Trust and Main Car park Entrance including ambitious bridge planters watered from River associated with new signage to the town and to the Park.
  • Repairing and Repositioning our Carved Town Sign and establishing a floral tableau  surround opposite The Angel Hotel.
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Great Activity at the Station this Morning!

27/1/2017

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Who is under the wonderful Russian hat? A great thanks to Dave King and his team who craned in three vast bags of pea shingle and to our great team with Judith, Karen, Gabrielle, Gillian, Sally, Giles,and Craig who despite having flu nobly came and provided essential muscle power. But under the hat looking stunning but also a force to be reckoned with our own Chair of halesworth Lights and Durrant's star as well - why Teresa Walsh welcome to our band!
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Here is Teresa on the right with Gabrielle and you can see the result above. A wonderful job and if that was not enough we emptied and refilled the two large planters on the S platform to bring the liners up to the top of our lovely planters allowing people a much better view of the flowers and Tete a Tete bulbs which are powering upwards.
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Supporting the Halesworth Museum's Malt Experience at the Cut and their complimentary trail around the Town.

26/1/2017

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Maltings in Quay Street in 1883, note the maltings in the New Cut and in Station Yard are still to be built. The other malting was the Gearge Maltings, neat the Angel Link roundabout.
Halesworth in Bloom will be supporting this important and very exciting project in several ways. Firstly we are working to improve the floral ambience outside The Cut Maltings and The New Cut itself. Look at the new exit garden created by us for the sheltered bungalow on the corner with the Norwich Road and sponsored by the Cut. At the Cut we want to add planting such as barley and poppies to give a flavour of the raw ingredient barley before it is malted.
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Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains, particularly in Eurasia as early as 13,000 years ago. Barley is used , as a source of fermentable material for beer which is the process going on in all our Town Maltings in the past.
Locally the malted barley was carried in wherries down to the sea along our old Navigation Canal through locks like the one at the entrance to the Town Park at Langley Quay - (why it is called a Quay.)
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A Norfolk wherry was similar to those in Halesworth - a flat bottomed boat carrying cargo. Our Town Park has the start of the Halesworth Navigation a canal with locks linked to the River Blyth created when the river silted up allowing wherries to travel between Halesworth and the Sea at Southwold.
An outline wherry the exact length of 40 feet is being placed in our Park beside the Path leading to the Millennium Green entrance. it will be made from locally sourced wood with a steel inlay map to show the whole Navigation with all the locks from Halesworth to Southwold.
​inside this outline Halesworth in Bloom will be planting low red sedums to indicate the cargo of malted barley in sacks.
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Whats going on this morning in the Town!

25/1/2017

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Litter to Glitter and new friends and volunteers
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Who is this, what is he playing on and how long has he entertained us in Halesworth?
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Wonderful winter planters Pinky's Photographers and our Planter in the Thoroughfare Congratulations
Our low whistle player is Kevin Gibbons from Beccles who has been playing in our Thoroughfare for nearly ten years. He is a very accomplished musician who also plays the guitar and mandolin. He wanted me on his behalf, to thank everyone  for supporting him.
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Signing off...

25/1/2017

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Hi, its Isabella and I am the current editor of this site! Soon I am going to be starting my GCSE's and I decided it was time to pass this on to somebody else. I had lots of fun working on this!
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From Litter to Glitter tomorrow Wednesday by the Flagpole at the Town Park at 9.00am

24/1/2017

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Bring gloves and waterproof shoes.
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