Gardening Sessions are on the 2nd Tuesday (10.00am) & 4th Wednesday (1.00pm) of each month. As start times vary between Winter and Summer, please check Facebook or the regular newsletters for latest details.
2025 Dates
January: 14th and 22nd
February: 11th and 26th
March: 11th and 26th
April: 8th and 23rd
May: 13th and 28th
June: 10th and 25th
July: 8th and 23rd
Aug: 12th and 27th
Sept: 9th and 24th
Oct: 14th and 22nd
Nov: 11th and 26th
Dec: 9th
EXTRA SESSION: Third Sunday of each month from 2pm. Check the monthly newsletter/updates for details.
Volunteer Update and Activities: December 2025
🌷🌷🌷HELP NEEDED!!🌷🌷🌷
We are looking for volunteers to come along to Potters Barn on Saturday 13th December at 2.00pm to help us plant bulbs in the grass around the Waterloo Rose bed. If you can spare any time to come along and help it would be much appreciated! (please see why below!)
November has been another busy month with 8 volunteers at our litter pick in Marine Garden. At our Tuesday morning get together 3 of us finished off weeding the crazy paving in Marine Garden, and 4 of us weeded the steps in Beach Lawn at our Sunday meeting. At our Wednesday session 4 of us started work on clearing the ivy and overgrown paths around the seating area in the far corner of Crescent Garden.
We were also joined by a team from the DWP who gave us a day of their volunteer time last Wednesday, when they planted approximately 3,000 tulip and scilla bulbs in the 4 circular grass beds at the centre of Crescent Garden. Ivy was also removed from the walls. Those planting bulbs soon had a system going – some digging holes, others popping the bulbs in and covering them over and they’re all looking forward to returning to the gardens in the Spring to see how their efforts are looking. We have quite a number of bulbs left – which is why we’re looking for help on the 13th!
Big thanks to the great team from DWP who came along to do some work for us today. Did some planting and clearing the walls of ivy and unwanted growth. It was very cold, but we managed to avoid the rain!
You’ll all have to wait until next year for the full “after photo” when the results of today’s work will spring into life!
We have just 3 volunteer sessions during December:
Tuesday 9th – Garden Maintenance at 10.00am meeting in the far corner of Crescent Garden
Saturday 13th – Litter Picking at 10.30am in Crescent Garden and
Saturday 13th – Bulb Planting in Potters Barn meeting at 2.00pm
All equipment, and refreshments will be provided.
With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year,
Janet Markland
Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens
