Planting days for 2014

 

STOP PRESS:  one more day to go, 17th August

Thanks  to the hard work of the teams at the SOSSI nursery and Botanic Gardens, we have about 19,000 plants to go in this year.  This is about twice as many as last year so we need lots more volunteers to help to plant them.

Scouts helping out
Scouts helping out

The public planting days will be Sundays, June 15 & 22 and July 20, and they will go ahead whatever the weather.  Please put these dates in your diaries and come along with your friends, family and spades (if you have them).  Wear strong shoes and dress for the weather.  A BBQ lunch will be supplied.

The start times are all 10am.  Please follow signs to the planting site.

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