First there were two days of apple tasting down the town and the Spar team soon were tasting with gusto
A huge thanks to Rachel Kellett for organising this.
Then a positive cornucopia of apples, local cheeses, butter, honey, local fallow deer venison, Blythburgh pork and best of all our brilliant local Dean Parkin poet always to be in residence at the CUT VIDEO POEM for Poem for Suffolk (2015) The Man in the Blue Overalls

A feast of apples and juice

Scrumptious

Ezra ready with the Raffle

apple tasting

local organic fruit and veg

Sunset

Conkers ready for action!

Advice from residents!!

Craig, Karen, Lisa, Sally, Gillie, and Ruth digging out and cutting back!

Stephanie and Linda tackling Salix hookeri

Lis watching Karen with the secateurs

Ten of us tackled the cut back and rearranging in the Memorial Garden. It was good fun with the group although there were absentees due to illness and broken arms! Back next Thursday morning - do come and join in!  Still lots to do. 

One presentation

Touring one of the glasshouses at Otley College

An interesting passion vine Passiflora Amethyst

Surprising ladies reclining at Otley!

Good feedback from our Judges Julia and Joan who were really impressed with their visit to Halesworth - their advice keep on doing what you are doing. They are clearly strong supporters.
No answers as yet on how a small garden with two bird feeders and a bird table can win over our Millennium Green which our Judges thought fantastic as with our Floral entrances. Next year!!!!!

Valuing wild life and plants starts with knowing them. Pond dipping started me on a career as a biology teacher and biological illustration.
Our wonderful Millennium Green is managed in such a way as to encourage and provide safe habitats for thousands of living things that need a wetland water meadow environment. The Trust who had the foresight and hard graft to buy and care for this area as well as sharing it with the whole community as well as visitors from all over the world travelling on Cycle Track 1 need our grateful thanks but also our active support. Check  their website www.halesworthmillenniumgreen.org to find out how.

Karen Austin and Tamsyn Imison receive the Certificate for our Special Award

Receiving our Anglia in Bloom Judges Nomination Certificate for Biodiversity in the Millennium Green from Bob Ollier this year 2016

We buy many annuals as well as the stunning hanging baskets we have at the Station. These have been up since early June and  are still flowering! Our trip today collected scented Panolas in  blues, whites and lilac for our tiered planter outside the Boarding House which we have painted black to cover the rust and light metal which are not attractive. We have already planted in it nearly 100 February Gold daffodils against plastic to protect the bulbs and plants against extremes of temperature. This was Chris Durham's idea from Hunstanton - he was also our 2015 Judge.