FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Winter 2008/9
King’s College Schoolboys get down to essential work
Above from the left after the Friday sessions: Replanted Sunken Garden; bed beside the hotel terrace; opposite the Aviary
HEAD gardener Martin
Butt and his colleague Abi Rose have welcomed the 20 helping hands they now get
for 90 minutes every Friday afternoon from the boys of King’s College School, a
few yards away from Cannizaro Park. Nine volunteers from the lower sixth form
and teacher Tony Pleece support them by clearing brambles and planting bulbs in
various parts of the park.
Volunteer Andrew Farr said: “Assisting
the gardeners we learn to appreciate our local gardens and help to complete
unfinished jobs in places such as Lady Jane’s Wood or the Sunken Garden. We hope
to
carry on helping the gardeners for years to come.”
They will be working in the Mediterranean Garden in the new term. Chris Mountford, former parks manager and now a Friends Committee member, has been giving the boys gardening advice.