We’re looking forward to seeing you there! We need as many volunteers as possible to help.
We will be planting on the grassy island in The Vale furthest from Claremont Road.
Please bring along trowels / gloves / spades if you have them!
Tea / coffee and biscuits will be available on site — outside 207 The Vale.
We’re excited that the Mayor of Barnet will be visiting the site on Saturday at 11:30 am.
Special thanks to Councillor Giulia Innocenti and to residents from The Vale for securing funding for this opportunity to beautify and improve the ecology of the green corridor in The Vale.
We’re so grateful to Maureen Byrne who – after two years of dogged persistence – has succeeded in arranging for the wildflower beds in The Vale to be reinstated.
You can already see the lovely daffodils clusters enhancing the green.
You will remember that early in 2020 GGERA volunteers planted a variety of spring bulbs in the green spaces on The Vale, thanks to the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association. The aim was to create a corridor of wild flowers which will look colourful and smell divine AND will entice butterflies and bees to come and make their home here too.
You may also remember that UK Power Networks dug up all our planting efforts a few months later.
We have some good news at last: Thanks to Maureen Byrne’s persistence one of the executives of the company has now promised compensation AND will himself assist with the replanting.
And while we’re on the subject …
Why not sow some wildflower seeds, which attract butterflies, bees and other pollinators, in your garden?
Pollination is important because it’s how plants reproduce and bear fruit. Over recent years, because of pesticides, our pollinators are dying and they desperately need the sustenance from wildflowers.
At the very least they are beautiful to look at.