A beautiful autumn day, if a tad windy and chilly, saw James and Julia assemble at the station for some planting and watering. On arrival there was police and ambulance in attendance but might've been a false alarm as they left quickly!

This morning we planted out some bright primulas, cyclamens, violets and heather to spruce up the area and replace the summer flowers which are now succumbing to the cold weather. We also watered and refilled the planters under the bridge that were quite dry. Thankfully we had a nice downpour earlier in the week to soak the rest of planters and saving us a job!

Nice good feel task to start a Sunday off!

A very productive session this morning to spruce up the planters at Hainault station:

• Sharon was in charge of a big job of picking out the rubbish and cigarette butts and also sweeping someone's attempt at 'help' (someone scooped out a lot of cigarette butts out of the planters onto the floor underneath!). Sharon also topped up the fresh soil and got rid of some of the dried out weeds. great job!
• I was in charge of the full watering and filling of the water reservoirs, it was definitely a workout and by the end my arms were in pain!

great good deed on Sunday morning! Next step is to get some fresh autumn flowers to brighten up the planters.

A well oiled machine of watering and filling up the reservoirs at Hainault station's community garden. To our surprise not as many cigarette butts, so we got onto a very productive session with extra watering cans, which is now saving us good 15mins to water and fill everything!:)

a quick lunchtime session away from the laptop to water plants and pick out cigarette butts!

We started by walking to Lidl and then the local garden centre to get some flowers to replace those that were vandalised yesterday! It was sooo windy and chilly!

we then planted flowers and finished filling in the planter reservoirs with water, good session!

we spent a good hour watering the planters, filling up water reserves this morning - good arm work out!

Sadly, on arrival, we discovered that some noob has pulled out a lot of plants and flowers last night and threw them on the road where they were flattened:(. What would drive a person do that?!

Anyways, we'll be replanting again and again, in the meantime this anti-social behaviour was reported and hopefully individual can be identified through the CCTV and fined!

There are a lot of great things about a community project, unfortunately you also deal with the negative side of community. It won't stop local residents creating good initiatives!