Wimborne Community Garden was grandly opened by mayor Carol Butter and officially welcomed into the town!

A watering can is the garden’s logo and the volunteers felt that rather than launch the project with a swinging bottle of champagne, a watering can was more in keeping!
The mayor carried out her duties with great aplomb, pictured right, before a toast was raised to the garden’s future.

The afternoon proved a great success with more than 200 folk coming to share in the excitement of this developing garden.

They wandered round the labelled vegetable beds, viewed the fruits developing in the fruit cage, children enjoyed the gorgeous willow ‘book pod’, delightful playhouse and sowing seeds, admired the seeds growing in the polytunnel, explored in the wild area of the garden, studied with great interest the plans for the developing sensory garden beds and all the while were serenaded wonderfully by the Skittle Alley Strummers.

Cakes were munched and tea flowed, ably assisted by the local Brownie pack who worked tirelessly throughout the afternoon.

In her welcoming speech, Jane Benson, voluntary manager of the Garden said, “We were blown away by the community’s amazing response. On reflection though, perhaps we shouldn’t have been so surprised as from day one the whole community has been behind us: we’ve had wonderful support from so many individuals, businesses, charities and the town council.”

“We look forward to continuing to give our support to Wimborne Food Bank and Beaucroft College.”

To learn more about the garden, email wimbornecommunitygarden@gmail.com or visit the garden at the top of School Lane on a Wednesday morning, Friday afternoon or Sunday afternoon and give it a go!