Garden Trust
Got a meeting of the Garden Trust today. We're trying to raise funding to refurbish a public garden which is in the style of a formal 17th century garden.
The garden is now over 30 years old, but the site/area dates back to the 13th century and the walls around the perimeter were built by Napoleonic prisoners of war. Much of the origical planting needs replaced, there's a sunken formal herb garden, cottage garden, hornbeam allee, loads of old roses etc, etc.
We've been sucessful in getting some funding to pay for a masonry survey and some other initial scoping work. I'm in the process of putting together a promotional brochure to send with our funding applications. It's a long slow haul, working with various agencies, but hopefully we'll get there. It would be good to see the place in good shape for the next generation.
Committee work is often pretty dull and tedious, but nothing in life seems to happen without it.
The garden is now over 30 years old, but the site/area dates back to the 13th century and the walls around the perimeter were built by Napoleonic prisoners of war. Much of the origical planting needs replaced, there's a sunken formal herb garden, cottage garden, hornbeam allee, loads of old roses etc, etc.
We've been sucessful in getting some funding to pay for a masonry survey and some other initial scoping work. I'm in the process of putting together a promotional brochure to send with our funding applications. It's a long slow haul, working with various agencies, but hopefully we'll get there. It would be good to see the place in good shape for the next generation.
Committee work is often pretty dull and tedious, but nothing in life seems to happen without it.
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11:39 am
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We visited an old walled garden in North Yorkshire a couple of years ago - this was being preserved by a charity - and it was a lovely place to walk round in the summer sunshine.
Wish I could remember where it was. We were staying near Helmsley so it must have been within twenty miles or so of there.
It sounds lovely. i'll m\aybe Google it. We could do with networking a bit to see how others raise funds, although grant sources vary on both sides of the Border.
If you can't find it let me know and I'll see if I can find it.
I think I actually videoed some of it.
Just can't remember where it was.
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