Our ‘meanwhile community garden’ is taking shape in Colchester with the first tranche of planting, carried out in December, settling in nicely.
We are designing the garden on a budget working with locally available materials which means mainly planting into recycled building waste materials (the remnants of a demolished building) obtained from the adjacent site. In addition to this sandy, stony mix, we also included some large chunks of broken up concrete footings with bricks set into it. These pieces will become like rocks in a rockery, giving visual interest, as
