Important: Litter can be contaminated, so we have put together some information to help you handle it safely. Please click on this link to have a read through our Health and Safety Guidance before you go out litter-picking.
Important: Litter can be contaminated, so we have put together some information to help you handle it safely. Please click on this link to have a read through our Health and Safety Guidance before you go out litter-picking.
The Friends of Eastfield Park are holding their annual Autumn Tidy-up in Eastfield Park on Saturday 12th October, 2013, 10.00am-4.00pm. As usual we are looking for volunteers to help! Come for an hour or all day - it’s up to you! The work will include, improving the Crescent Rock Garden, general litter picking and other conservation work. Come along and make a difference! Tools and protective gloves provided; free refreshments available. Please send text to 07910161275 or email vicsmith.foep@gmail.com if you would like a cooked lunch! (Discover our website: www.foep.eastfieldward.co.uk; Also on Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-Eastfield-Park/252115768221776) The work during the Tidy-up concentrated on litter removal, further improvements to the Crescent Rock Garden and planting daffodil bulbs. Twenty-three bags of litter and other rubbish were removed from the Park including a shopping trolley that had been dumped in the lake.
The Crescent Rock Garden’, located to the south-west of the bottom pond, had been largely restored during 2011 and formed a major part of our 2012 submission to the RHS ‘It’s Your Neighbourhood’ event (for which we received a Level 4 (‘Thriving’) award from the RHS / East Midlands in Bloom). However, since then, the garden had been largely neglected and had again become overgrown with weeds (though the restored landscaping was still intact). The work on the rockery during the Tidy-up included removal of weeds and planting with home-grown cyclamen, wood anemones and a few extra primroses. Well over 100 daffodil bulbs were planted among the trees on the north side of the lake. .
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