Perspiring Gardens Group!

Gardens require water – most of it perspiration! (Sign seen in a Canterbury garden)

Perspiration begins early with a springtime attack on neglected garden features – in this case at Northiam. Not neglected by rabbit however and so the first job is to beat the bunnies by fencing plots in.

Tom puts the finishing touches to the replaced hedging at Northiam. The dead sections were dug out to discover they were rooted in a cornucopia of coal-yard products plus three milk bottles! No wonder they deceased!

Summer allows further work to be done and a dead patch takes on new life.

Meanwhile, thwarted by our fencing the rabbits fancy a diet of evergreen hedge screening and so Robin sets to work repairing and restoring.

Stan with a strimmer of industrial proportions makes light work of a bank that took us weeks to clear last year.

Clearing for the planned Northiam veg. Patch – must be good soil with all those weeds!

Robin and Drew are not planning on burgers for lunch – rather constructing attractive new containers for pots to be hung from the station fencing.

Spring over, the bluebells have faded and so the ground must be cleared for the next phase.

Spring time remembered – next to the Tenterden Pullmans.

Country station beauty on a rural line – what could look more enchanting?

Anyone interested in becoming involved in the gardens should contact Veronica Hopker (Evenings) on 01303 862811.

Photographs taken by John Rose