On Tuesday I visited Homebase Richmond to see if they had any plants available to donate for GoodGym garden projects (The Three Pigeons plot and the Hounslow Mosque). The manager gave me permission to have a rummage in the yellow hippobags behind the store, where plants that had suffered badly during the lockdown closure had been left. I rescued a good number of discarded hebes and strawberry plants and a few spirea and found soil and pots for them at home.

Most went to the Hounslow Mosque on Wednesday for their community garden project. I did put aside 6 hebe (aka dwarf ‘shrubby Veronica’ ) but unfortunately I loaded them up with the Hounslow Jamia Masjid donations by mistake.