Church gardeners
There is now clear evidence that we can all enjoy the physical and emotional benefits of spending time outdoors in a green environment. You don’t even have to do anything other than experience it with your senses!
The Church Gardeners meet every Saturday between 10.00am and 12.30pm throughout the year at beautiful St Giles Church in Great Hallingbury. Come along and think of the churchyard as your local green space. You can meet new friends, share your skills or learn some new ones, enjoy the satisfaction of nurturing nature or just sit and take it all in!
We try our best to garden the churchyard in a wildlife friendly way to encourage native species of plants, insects and animals. Conventional gardening has tended to be about keeping things tidy and weeded. We now know that by leaving a few nettles, dead leaves and twigs around that nature benefits. Nectar and pollen rich meadow flowers have emerged by simply adopting a ‘no mow’ program in the old churchyard and these in turn attract birds and pollinating insects. By fostering this more natural approach to management, we hope to continue to improve the meadow’s biodiversity and environmental value.
We do mow the new graveyard to keep it looking well cared for and closer to the Church you will see the planting is of perhaps more familiar garden varieties.
Gardener or not, come and take and look. You will always be offered a warm welcome and a hot cuppa!
Please contact Russell Robinson on 07756 142890 for more information.
The Church Gardeners meet every Saturday between 10.00am and 12.30pm throughout the year at beautiful St Giles Church in Great Hallingbury. Come along and think of the churchyard as your local green space. You can meet new friends, share your skills or learn some new ones, enjoy the satisfaction of nurturing nature or just sit and take it all in!
We try our best to garden the churchyard in a wildlife friendly way to encourage native species of plants, insects and animals. Conventional gardening has tended to be about keeping things tidy and weeded. We now know that by leaving a few nettles, dead leaves and twigs around that nature benefits. Nectar and pollen rich meadow flowers have emerged by simply adopting a ‘no mow’ program in the old churchyard and these in turn attract birds and pollinating insects. By fostering this more natural approach to management, we hope to continue to improve the meadow’s biodiversity and environmental value.
We do mow the new graveyard to keep it looking well cared for and closer to the Church you will see the planting is of perhaps more familiar garden varieties.
Gardener or not, come and take and look. You will always be offered a warm welcome and a hot cuppa!
Please contact Russell Robinson on 07756 142890 for more information.
