Green homes get Wokingham gardens
Wokingham Green fingered gardeners with learning disabilities from Wokingham Resource and Opportunity Centre (WROC) usually enjoy working on their own green plots and holding fundraising plant sales with the horticultural therapy charity Growing Places.
On Monday June 11, three gardeners from WROC took on a new challenge: planting large flower beds in the communal gardens of the new key-worker housing development at St Crispin’s School in Wokingham, where many teachers are looking forward to living.
Denne Construction and their client Home Group set Growing Places the green challenge. Horticultural therapist Margaret Larby, Growing Places volunteer Mike Davis and WROC gardeners Peter Waite and Michael Skeggs planted the Wokingham beds with rosemary, penstemons, asters and hardy geraniums that they have grown themselves at Turgis Court Farm, the Growing Places site in Hampshire.
The plants, all chosen by the Growing Places gardeners, were purchased from the charity by Denne Construction, which is keen to extend its focus on environmental issues to include involvement of local community groups in the Wokingham St Crispin’s eco-homes project.
Community liaison manager for Denne Construction Ben Green said: “Growing Places has done a great job and I’m very pleased we were able to involve them in this project –we have made this development as sustainable and as friendly to the local environment as we can, and involving a leading community group in the green landscaping has really helped us to take that further.”
Home Group’s project manager Geraldine Medrano said: “This planting has helped give the finishing touch to what has been a very successful scheme. I’m delighted with the excellent job Growing Places has done today.”
Executive member for Wokingham social care and chairman of the planning committee Cllr David Lee said: “This is an excellent example of the skills that gardeners from Growing Places can provide to a landscaping project. I would like to thank everyone involved for their hard work and I welcome this development, which has been built to an exceptionally high standard with excellent communal gardens for future residents and their families.”
On Monday June 11, three gardeners from WROC took on a new challenge: planting large flower beds in the communal gardens of the new key-worker housing development at St Crispin’s School in Wokingham, where many teachers are looking forward to living.
Denne Construction and their client Home Group set Growing Places the green challenge. Horticultural therapist Margaret Larby, Growing Places volunteer Mike Davis and WROC gardeners Peter Waite and Michael Skeggs planted the Wokingham beds with rosemary, penstemons, asters and hardy geraniums that they have grown themselves at Turgis Court Farm, the Growing Places site in Hampshire.
The plants, all chosen by the Growing Places gardeners, were purchased from the charity by Denne Construction, which is keen to extend its focus on environmental issues to include involvement of local community groups in the Wokingham St Crispin’s eco-homes project.
Community liaison manager for Denne Construction Ben Green said: “Growing Places has done a great job and I’m very pleased we were able to involve them in this project –we have made this development as sustainable and as friendly to the local environment as we can, and involving a leading community group in the green landscaping has really helped us to take that further.”
Home Group’s project manager Geraldine Medrano said: “This planting has helped give the finishing touch to what has been a very successful scheme. I’m delighted with the excellent job Growing Places has done today.”
Executive member for Wokingham social care and chairman of the planning committee Cllr David Lee said: “This is an excellent example of the skills that gardeners from Growing Places can provide to a landscaping project. I would like to thank everyone involved for their hard work and I welcome this development, which has been built to an exceptionally high standard with excellent communal gardens for future residents and their families.”
Wokingham Borough Council
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