This year has been very different in every way as we keep saying. We prepared our community gardens in Old Town quite well before lockdown, wanting to get everything ready for a wonderful series of entries to the RHS's Bloom scheme. We have six community gardens in Old Town, looked after by a group of volunteers, some from Old Town Residents Association, and we are also assisted by South Swindon Parish Council who enter their three parks: Queen's Park, Town Gardens and GWR Park. We keep our Facebook page, OTRA Gardens up to date mostly with what we've been doing, and the next sessions are often listed there.
At the moment, because we're in lockdown, we are not meeting at the moment, and will probably not do so now until February 2021. The point of this first of a series of posts is to record what our gardens looked like in the second week of November; we have just received our certificates despite the fact the judges decided against visiting any of the gardens in person for obvious reasons. It was hard to capture the gardens in sunshine which would have been ideal, but it's a bit of a record to remind us where we got to in 2020. I'm starting with a few photos from the garden at Station Approach which receives lots of attention from the large number of pedestrians walking past. It does still need its railings painting, hopefully we'll get that done next spring.
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