Hawthorn planting at Biddulph Grange Garden on 8 March 2015

Ten of us were at Biddulph today planting hawthorn trees.  We worked with gardeners Jon, Bob and Rob and planted the trees in three areas.  The main area was around the entrance to the driveway to the overflow carpark, the second was against the fences around the gardeners' toolstore/yard and the third was against the perimeter fence off the Long Walk.

Sadly we did not have yesterday's beautiful weather and it rained continuously from 10:30 until 1:30pm.  We were glad the volunteers' brew room (adjacent to the rangers' toolstore) was close by so we could take shelter from the worst of the rain.  Before lunch we spent fifteen minutes filling two cold frames with gravel.

After lunch Jon showed us the dahlias in the greenhouse.  The beds where they will be planted were pointed out to us later.  The weather improved a lot after 2 o'clock and it was ironic that when we left at 3:30 the sun was shining!