The weather gods must be on our side as they saved the best of the weekend's sunshine for our task day today.
It was a very good turn out with volunteers doing lots of work on the flowerbeds including the War Memorial beds, the Shuttle Stone bed, the Toilet Block bed and the two next to the council offices near to the car park. Pruning was also carried out to the shrub beds on the other side of the council offices too.
The Allotment Association were in attendance and continued the development of their newly adopted fruit, veg, herb and flower garden with the planting of a pair of apple trees. This is going to be a fascinating new feature in the park this summer. The Association are hoping visitors will pull out weeds in the bed while passing and take a small amount of produce as a reward.
Meanwhile, our team of intrepid bench restorers tackled a new project sponsored by a donation from Marple Area Committee to refurbish the picnic benches down at the Recreation Ground. These substantial benches, sponsored by Marple Civic Society and the Macnair Trust in 1990 have been the worse for wear and vandalism for a while now and Area Committee have paid for timber to refurbish the bench tops and seats. One bench was completed today and the other will be done soon. The original plaques will be cleaned up and replaced in the near future too.
Back in the park, our new jet wash was tested by giving Midnight the Owl Tree Sculpture a good hose-down to remove all the green before being treated with preservative next time.
