July 2011
This month’s report from the Garden group is about two gardening jobs with which we were involved.
Before the Arts Festival, the Garden group was asked if it would help out with weeding the garden at Crystal Creek.
While Chris Warren had done most of the work, the last minute weeding needed to be done just a few days before the sculptures were to arrive.
About ten members volunteered to weed one morning – I hope that all who visited the Sculpture Exhibition over the three days noticed how pristine the beds were around the house!
Sophie provided morning tea on the verandah and it was a lovely morning of community work.
The other day also involved the Arts Festival, as one of the prizes offered in their Raffle was ten hours of gardening.
The second prize winner chose that as his reward and nine of us drove just over the mountain to Shoalhaven Heads one morning in June.
Again it was a great community exercise as we chatted while we worked – perhaps the men did the more physical jobs - but overall we made a difference and Richard Miller, the eminent photographer, was pleased with our efforts.
He generously provided a delicious ploughman’s lunch for us all and we left feeling that we had won the raffle!
Thank you to those Gardening Group members who so willingly gave of their time to help, many of them both times.
Lee Sharam