Open Garden

We recently had our second annual open garden for the charity, ACEF. We did lots of things to fundraise, we had lots of different cakes that were homemade by Carol and me.

Showing off the raffle tickets and cakes.

We also had a plant sale with plants that we had propped ourselves and some plants donated from King's, one of our local garden centres. There was a raffle too, with the raffle prizes of a Cycas circinalis donated by Urban and Rural Plants and a wormery donated by The Worm Firm.

A selection of our plants for sale.

The Wormery and Cycas circinalis raffle prizes.

We had help from Lucien's parents, Carol and Cliff, who were tea ladies for the day, making sure that everyone had tea or coffee and cake. Carol had made an apron each for them to look the part.

Carol sporting her apron.

The day started off with rain and gusts, which wasn't ideal but we still had our first visitors, Libby and Mark from Wiltshire.

The sun soon came out and so did more visitors. We had non-stop raffle ticket sales and the drinks and cake were going down a storm. The plant sale was also well received.

Raffle tickets and plants being sold.

Neighbours joining in.

Cuppa time.

Lucien even managed to get the fish to behave and come up to be fed.

The day was a huge success and we totally annihilated last years fundraising total. We ended the day with £460 for charity. We are now looking forward to next years open garden.

Laura