Statement from our chairman
We are now  in a situation like we have never had before and many lessons will be learnt. The nursery industry that supplies the plants we use is going to be devastated. More than ever the supportive and engaging qualities of nature are there to be cherished and nourished, this is the gift we have been given and the gift we can share. When society recovers from this pandemic we can find extra ways of sharing this gift, it will be the least we can do.

This is a quote from an essay by Olivia Laing in her new book Funny Weather : Art in an emergency, due to be published in April
' in these plague times, the garden is what's keeping me sane. Outside it's possible to forget the frightening news for an hour or two. A garden is rooted in time, but it's also about now. Right now: the bee; right now: the wallflower flaming in to bloom.......There's no need to finish, no final iteration to be reached, mistakes will be made.......All the same, I've never found an activity as soothing or as wholly absorbing. It's like being immersed in a deep silent pool '

The following lines by John O'Donohue are beautiful 

“This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.”

​Thank you, 
Colin 
30 March 2020

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