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Blooming Bedminster e-newsletter - Autumn 2021

Welcome to the autumn Blooming Bedminster e-newsletter

Secret Garden Grants

11 groups across BS3 will benefit from Bedminster's Secret Garden grants. This years events raised over £1600 to support community gardening and environmental groups. Click here to see details of the grants awarded.

Secret Gardens is ten!

2022 - we're celebrating our tenth secret garden open weekend

Next year is a special year as we will be celebrating our tenth open garden weekend event! Since we held our first Bedminster's Secret Gardens open weekend in 2006 (when just nine gardens took part), an amazing 95 gardens across BS3 have opened their gates for people to visit and helped raise over £10,000 to support local good causes. To mark our tenth anniversary, we're planning to make the 2022 Bedminster's Secret Gardens weekend bigger and better than ever. If you'd like to be part of it by opening your garden, register your interest now at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KPYNJY2. We'll be in touch early in the New Year when we start our planning.

Bedminster Lantern Parade

After a years enforce break due to COVID, Bedminster's Winter Lanterns parade will be back in 2022 and we're planning to join in with a blooming lovely lantern to celebrate all the wonderful Blooming Bedminster activities. The lantern parade takes place on Saturday 8 January, we'll be joining in with some lantern making workshops throughout November and December - if you'd like to join in helping make and walk with our Blooming Bedminster lantern in the parade, please let us know bloomingbedminster@outlook.com

Autumn images

We're well and truly into the season of autumn mists and fruitfulness - and we'd love to see pictures from your autumn gardens. You can post your autumn images on our Blooming Bedminster Facebook group, on Twitter: @BloomingBedmin1 Instagram: bloomingbedminster or email bloomingbedminster@outlook.com for us to share on our bloomingbedminster.org.uk blog

Blooming Bedminster Winter Quiz

It might be quiet in the garden, but through the winter we'll be posting occasional quiz questions to test your horticultural knowledge - no prizes, it's just for fun. Have a go at our first round https://bloomingbedminster.tumblr.com/post/666573696663764994/blooming-bedminster-winter-quiz-it-might-be-quiet

Could 2022 be the year of the Sociable Street?

For many people streets have become just places for the passage and storage of vehicles, plus a few recycling bins. But residential and commercial streets could be so much more. Groups across BS3 (including Blooming Bedminster) are coming together to discuss the idea of the 'Sociable Street' - neighbourhood streets where people can meet and greet each other as they tend their front gardens, visit local shops, play in and walk or cycle around. Would you like your street to be a sociable street? Maybe it already is and you can help others do the same in their street. If you'd like to find out more or get involved, you can contact Ben Barker benbarker@blueyonder.co.uk

Autumn berries from Angie's garden

Autumn colour from Kay's garden

Blooming Bedminster Winter Quiz

It might be quiet in the garden, but through the winter we'll be posting occasional quiz questions to test your horticultural knowledge - no prizes, it's just for fun. Here's our first round

Round one

Our gardens are home to plants originating from many corners of the world. Can you match each botanical name below to the plant's country of origin?

Botanical names

1. Sinesis

2. Aethiopium

3. Helveticus

4. Hispanicus

5. Gallicus

6. Cambrica

7. Lusitanica

8. Himalaica

9. Graeca

10. Japonica

Countries of origin

A. Japan

B. Switzerland

C. Wales

D. Portugal

E. Africa

F. Greece

G. Nepal

H. Spain

I. China

J. France

2022 Bedminster's Secret Gardens grants

Thank you to everyone who visited this years Bedminster's Secret Gardens, your donations mean that 11 groups across BS3 will benefit from Bedminster's Secret Garden grants. We raised over £1600 to support community gardening and environmental groups.

Grants Awarded 2021

Ashton Vale Together - £175 – for improving their community gardens

Flourish - £170 – gardening and wellbeing workshop for parents

Victoria Park Action Group - £100 – for compost bins for the community garden

Malago Berry Maze - £150 – for spring bulbs and ground cover plants

Friends of Avon New Cut - £150 – towards plants, gloves and a compost bin for their new community gardening group

Nurture the Nursery - £100 – for plants for the community to plant in the flower bed in the Nursery

Greville Smyth Bowls Club - £150 – towards plants and soil to improve and maintain the garden

Ashton Vale Club for Young People - £100 – for plants and seeds for the wellbeing garden

Dame Emily Park Project - £200 – for a forest school session in the Park

Bedminster Station Garden Project - £175 – for soil improver and plants for the garden

Patchwork and Way out West - £150 – for trees and plants for new planting on Harptree Grove

The days might be shortening but there's still plenty of wonderful colour about

Autumn beauty all around ❤️ love this season

Grants for green community projects

You may have visited some of the gardens which opened in July as part of Bedminster's Secret Gardens weekend. More than £1,600 was raised over the two days, despite a rather wet Sunday. This money is available for local community groups to apply for in the form of small grants. Groups can apply for up to £200, they must be based in the Greater Bedminster area and the money must be spent on gardening or environmental related projects. The closing date for applications is 30th September. For more information and an application form, please email laura_murgatroyd@hotmail.com The organisers would like to say a big thank you to everyone who took part in and supported Secret Gardens.

THANK YOU!

Huge thanks to everyone who opened their gardens and everyone who visited Bedminster's Secret Gardens 2021 over the weekend - especially those who braved the rain later on Sunday. We loved meeting everyone and sharing our gardens with everyone. We hope to do it again in 2022 - we might even have sunshine next year! If you'd like to join in and open your garden fill in your details here

Bedminster's Secret Gardens Open Weekend 2021

Bedminster's Secret Gardens returns on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th July, 12-5. Over thirty gardens will be open to visit.

Download the free Secret Gardens guide and map (20 pages)

Download the free Secret Gardens map and list of gardens open (2 pages)

Update sheet - any last minute changes or updates

Keep up to date with updates on Facebook (Blooming Bedminster) and Twitter @BloomingBedmin1

PLEASE NOTE: Due to unforeseen circumstances garden #6 (45 Foxcote Road) is now unable to open this weekend. For other gardens open see the guide.

Keep Covid Safe

Enjoy Secret Gardens but please help us keep everyone Covid safe
Please wear a face mask of passing through a house to visit the garden
Please try to maintain social distance and avoid visiting in large groups
None of the gardens will exceed the maximum legal limit of thirty people for outdoor events
Some gardens are small and may have a lower limit of the maximum number in at one time, please be patient if you have to wait a short while to enter a garden
Help yourself to free hand sanitiser available at each garden
If using the free shuttle minibus on Sunday, please wear a mask and fill in the track and trace form when you board the bus

Thank you for your co-operation

We're sorry, but accessibility is restricted in many of the gardens for those with limited mobility. Virtual video tours are available to enjoy online for many of the gardens.

Thanks to our sponsors for supporting the 2021 Secret Gardens weekend

Would you like to open your garden as part in a future Secret Garden event? Let us know here

Our volunteer judges are out and about delivering Good Front Garden Awards. Judging takes place between 19 June - 11 July, so keep your gardens watered!

With more than 250 streets to cover it takes a while to get all of the judging done - but please be patient, we'll get your street judged by 11 July. If your street has been judged and you think you might have been missed - please email bloomingbedminster@outlook.com we're always happy to take a second look