Florence Rowed - this report is oarsome

3 Goodgymers helped their local community in Lewisham
Isaac Beevor
Vic
Jacqueline Francis
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Lewisham

Saturday 2nd November

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Ahoy! It’s Mari(gold) Time to launch ALL the nautical, horticul(ture) puns. Some might even say, I’ve gone overboard, or even written a run report that’s a bit ship.

Three GGers tested their sea legs by heading to Florence Road to help fill the new planter - a small rowing boat which has been donated by the Ahoy! Centre in Greenwich and is now docked at Florence Green.

Buoyed along by eager discussions about how nice it will be to enjoy the space when everything is growing next year, Vic, Isaac, and Jacqueline got to work planting young plants and bulbs.

Naomi (a local resident) used her imagination to create a trellis for the centre of the boat. Planning had been given for a boat but not a mast so the trellis was absolutely definitely not a mast at all in any way.

Isaac continued the watery theme by giving the new plants a good water.

It was oarsome to see the final part of Subo’s vision for Florence Green coming to life.

There may be a few more sessions for weeding to keep the space ship-shape but the majority of the work is now done and we look forward to seeing it blooming in Spring, when the garden will be officially launched!

That’s it, that’s more puns than I have ever thought of in my entire Goodgym career. I’m all at sea!


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FLORENCE GREEN
Sustainable garden project to transform an unloved piece of land into a biodiverse space for the community

This is a co-project between two community groups - our aim is to create a sustainable green space for both our community groups to share, improve community relations, increase friendships and less isolation to enhance wellbeing.

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Sun 3rd Nov at 11:01am

Looks as though it was plain sailing for a bunch of land lubbers

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