Thursday, May 20, 2021

19 May 21 Update

 Good evening everyone,

Firstly many thanks for coming along to Llwyngarreg for the walk and talk with Paul & Liz, and I hope that you enjoyed the day and found inspiration from this garden.
Our next garden visit is to Aberglasney on the 12th of June, more information to follow nearer the date..

With regard to the planned clean up at the OSG, it looks like the weather on Friday is going to be wet and windy, so I've decided to defer the clean up until the following Friday the 28th of May and at 5pm onwards, or please come along at any time that's best for you.

Apologies for this, but this is the sort of work we could do with your help with:
Painting the wooden gates.
Raking and weeding the path's.
Weeding the dry stone wall.
Weed and bramble removal from the open areas. Most of this work is weeding by hand, since strimming will do more damage to wildflowers and saplings... 
Spreading slate chippings in the vicinity of the new seating area.


Kind regards,

Roy 

Thursday, May 6, 2021

6 May 2021 Update

 Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you are all well and looking forward to a little more freedom in the coming months, with the vaccine program offering optimism for us all.

Thanks to everyone who attended our zoom meeting, I appreciate zoom is not the most invigorating way of communicating, but it keeps us informed and engaged, which is very important for our wellbeing...

Finances: Mary Megarry our Village Hall Treasurer is progressing the opening of a Bank account for LGG and under the umbrella of LVH accounts, more information to follow. Also, the maintenance money from ACC has been transferred over to LVH and will then be moved across to LGG account, many thanks to Mary and ACC for arranging this for us. 

Well done to Trish for a really interesting and thought provoking talk on the "No Dig" concept, which we all enjoyed, it's not easy giving a presentation in front of a live audience, but doing this on line without the usual live audience participation is a challenge. Thanks Trish.

With regard to the maintenance of community areas, could you please lend a hand at the Old School Garden on Friday the 21st of May at 6pm for as much time as you can spare please. Also if you would like to go along and rake paths, weed around flower beds, paint the gates at the OSG or Claypits, then please do so at any time you wish.
After all, every little helps make these areas more interesting and pleasing for all our community.
   
As far as the tree planting at Stanwell, we are awaiting confirmation from Amroth Community Council regarding the purchase of the trees.

Thanks to Pauline, Sue and Bev from ACC for attending a meeting to discuss a Pollinator Project with Chris Taylor {Pembrokeshire Coastal Path Warden}, more information to follow at our next zoom meeting from Pauline and Sue.
   
Summer Walk and Talks are as follows:
Llwyngarreg garden May 15th at 2pm. https://www.llwyngarreg.co.uk/
Aberglasney June 12th at 10am, walk and talk with Joseph Atkin at 1pm. https://aberglasney.org/
Upton Castle July 10th at 2pm, walk and talk, followed by tea and cakes. https://www.uptoncastle.com/
Glyn Bach August 8th at 2pm (monada collection). https://www.glynbachgardens.co.uk/
Tywi Gateway Project (Abergwili Old Bishops Palace) September 4th at 2pm. The garden tea room and toilets should be open around this date, so this date may drift by a week, more information to follow. https://tywigateway.org.uk/
Can you let me know if you are attending any of the above as soon as possible please, especially if you would like afternoon tea at Upton Castle.
 
Virtual Summer Show is underway, so could you get your entries in as soon as they're ready please, also if you can encourage others to take part, then this would be appreciated. In our previous shows we struggled with show entries from children, so if you could please encourage your children and grandchildren to put forward show entries, then this would be appreciated. 

Pauline will be contacting you all about plant sharing, so if you've a surplus of plants or you need some plants, then please contact Pauline.

Many thanks for those who gave second homes to the compost bins and plant pots, there are a few more available from Caz, so please get back to me if you need plant pots?

In July Bryony Gardner will be giving us a talk about Hydroponics, a date is to be agreed.
Future talks in the pipeline include: Chris Taylor Pollinator Project - Jake Rayson Creating a Forest Garden, and it may be possible to have these talks outdoors or when practicable at the village hall. Information to follow when we receive updates from the new WAG.

Thanks to Carol and Simon from Waterwynch for donating a large amount of slate chippings, which we are going to use at the Old School Garden to enhance the area around the new seating.


Kind regards,


Roy

Saturday, May 1, 2021

28th April 21 Update

 Goods evening everyone,

Please see message from Liz O'Neill at Llwyngarreg Llanfalteg {https://www.llwyngarreg.co.uk/}.

Kind regards,


Roy


Dear Garden Clubs,
Further to my previous message, we have organised a "Pop-up" opening on Sunday May 2nd 10am-6pm. We will be serving teas with some safety precautions eg: only 2 people in conservatory at one time, mainly self-service, hand sanitiser available.
Online booking is on the NGS website, but personally I don't quite get it: with our large garden I do not anticipate overcrowding....so don't feel it essential. 
Please, club secretaries, can you forward this to as many people as you can think of!
Thanks, Liz O'Neill

On Friday, 2 April 2021, 10:03:36 BST, liz oneill <lizpaulfarm@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:


Dear Garden Clubs,
I hope that you are all well, and looking forward to a better year. The National Garden Scheme is not yet allowed to open - please lobby our AM's (who do not give gardens a passing thought) - to allow the low risk, beneficial activity which is visiting gardens!! Sorry - my soapbox is showing.

However, certainly by April 26th we should be able to welcome you, and are keen to do so, speaking for ourselves at Llwyngarreg Garden. All the NGS gardens are online at ngs.org.uk and can be contacted if they accept "By Arrangement" visits. 

2020 was a dreadful year for the beneficiaries we normally donate over £3 million/year to in the UK, so we hope 2021 to be a better one. The booklet is reduced in size to save costs this year, so the website is ever more important (and improved). By the way, with no furloughing, our gardens are looking wonderful!

Hoping to see some of you soon,
Best wishes, Liz and Paul O'Neill.

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