Thank You to the Volunteers from Lloyds Banking Group!

carolineblake-syme
Jul 20
2 min read

We were delighted to welcome a lovely group of Corporate Volunteers on 13 July from Lloyds Banking Group to help us with planting the Woodstock Homes Multiple Sclerosis pocket garden that was brought to the Centre following the RHS Badminton Flower Show. The team got stuck in with digging and planting, under direction of one of the garden’s designers, Micheal Leech, who also did an epic job of loading and transporting two van loads of flowers, furniture and sculptures from Badminton to the Centre.

The team were also assisted on the day by our own brilliant Brightwell Garden volunteers Dave and Sylv, and Jen, along with her colleague Jenny, who also did a tremendous job. Other helpers on the day were Martin and Callum Blake-Symes, and Rosie and Paul Howell who did a great job of pruning and tidying up the garden border hedges and patio areas.

The whole team did fantastic work digging and planting, including planting a beautiful new tree, and watering all the new additions. As well as planting the seating space that represented the original RHS garden design, they also planted in other areas of the grounds with additional plants. They worked like absolute stars, and we couldn’t be more pleased! It was hard work – the ground was dry and rocky, and spaces for the beautiful neurone sculptures from the RHS garden also had to be dug out in the main flower border, which proved to be quite a challenge! We are also extremely grateful to the Lloyds team for generously donating and collecting additional compost bags for the plants on the day.