Herald - Issue 408

Page 50 • The HERALD • 24th June 2021 v GROW YOUR BUSINESS WITH THE HERALD v | DOWN THE GARDEN PATH | Fred Hurst 023 8084 2191 or 07761 467217 • Grass Cutting • Garden Clearance • Hedge Cutting • Fallen Trees Cleared • Mini Digger Hire with Operator • Property Clearance • Small Demolition • Tractor Flail Cutting FULLY INSURED v FREE QUOTATIONS Send your local news to The Editor, The Herald, 2 High Street, Hythe SO45 6AH or email editor@herald-publishing.co.uk A Call For Volunteers to Help Look After Your Local Environment Hythe & Dibden Woodland Group are a small bunch of volunteers who meet on the rst Sunday each month at 10am to improve the local area. Members carry out various tasks in the couple of hours they get together, which include litter picking, cutting back the vegetation along the pathways to ensure the way is kept open, small repairs to wooden bridges and making bird boxes. ere are now over 40 bird boxes in Tates Wood, Lower Butts Ash Wood and Shore Road which give birds a cosy place to raise their young. An owl box has been sited in Tates Wood but only stock doves have nested in it so far. As with most volunteer groups new people are always welcome and if you would like to join the group please get in contact. e group is insured and supply tools to carry out the small tasks. Please email: foresta6@btinternet.com if you would like to help the group. You can also nd Hythe & Dibden Woodland Group on Facebook: facebook. com/HytheAndDibdenWoodlandGroup A BUGS LIFE Bob Broom eld, one of the volunteers at the Healthy Haven Garden has made a bespoke bug hotel for the garden. Some volunteers had a social event to view it. e volunteers will be holding another plant sale on Saturday 17th July at 9.30am in the car park at the Waterside Medical Practice in front of Day Lewis pharmacy. ey are also doing a Summer ra e with lots of lovely prizes. is will be drawn on Saturday 17th July at 11am at the plant sale. e volunteers will be selling tickets for the ra e in front of the surgery. Please support them, as the money will be going to the log cabin fund. ey hope to get the log cabin this coming Autumn. Left to right: Jason, Pam, Anne, Bob, Chris, Pam and Sue Garden lovers of all ages will nd the National Gardens Scheme (NGS) ‘Garden Visitor’s Handbook 2021 (popularly known as e Yellow Book) invaluable when planning days out to take a peek behind other people’s garden gates. All over the country, thousands of private gardens are opened to the public on speci ed dates as part of the NGS scheme to raise funds for various nursing, caring and gardening charities it helps support. e so-called ‘bible’ of garden visiting and the key to secret gardens of England and Wales gives details of all the gardens taking part, together with location, a brief description of the garden, and dates when you can visit. e publication can be purchased for £13.99 online at www.ngs.org.uk Gardens To Visit