Steve Bailey’s Friends of Torr Park held their first working party just before Easter. Seven enthusiastic Friends turned out to begin the task of de-weeding the Rhodo beds, which are a feature of the Park in the spring. These have become overgrown with brambles, elders, and other material that shouldn’t be there (the definition of a weed is ‘a plant in the wrong place’).
Two one-tonne polybags and several brown bins were filled and removed from the site. The larger branches were left for the council’s chipper the following day. The chippings will be recycled on the beds to act as mulch and prevent further regrowth.
