Southern Town Park, Abingdon - Saturday 15th March 2025
Blog by Eleanor, photos by Julio, Michele and Eleanor This was our twice yearly visit, once in Autumn and once in Spring, to Southern Town Park, where we have a wild flower patch. It was also the day of the Science Fair in the market place and, as some of our volunteers were helping with that, it was good to have twelve of us turning out for the Green Gym session. We met in the Youth Football Club car park in Lambrick Way, which was packed with vehicles as there was a big tournament going on, and made our way around the pitches to our site at the far end of the park. The weather was quite sunny, though with a brisk, chilly wind. We were joined by one new volunteer, and as we started work, a passer by stopped and said he would like to join us at a future session, which was very encouraging. Our tasks were to plant primrose plugs and violets at the front around the sign and to dig patches to sow annual seeds. We had cornfield mixtures plus borage, centaury and fumitory. The site wit...