Saturday, 20 February 2010

Wine Tasting Friday 5th March

Friends of Rock Road Library invite you to an evening's tasting of some fine wines selected by Hedonist Wines:
www.hedonistwines.co.uk

This convivial, relaxed social event will take place in the Rock Road Library
Friday 5 March, 8 pm-10.30pm.

Wines will be introduced by expert wine-seller Anthony Jenkins , and accompanied by savoury nibbles and a sampling of local cheese.

Complete beginners welcome- Tickets must be booked in advance - £12 non-members £10 members. To book please e-mail RockRoadFriends@yahoo.com

Tuesday, 29 December 2009

December snow (2)


Another picture of the library garden in the snow.

December snow







Just a picture of the library garden in the snow....

Saturday, 5 December 2009

Plan of apple varieties


Here is a rough plan of the library garden showing the twelve different apple varieties that were planted today. Ten of these were bought from the East of England Orchards project. These were specially chosen to be of local interest. Further details can be found on the website at http://www.applesandorchards.org.uk/. We have also planted one Crab apple and one Bramley apple so that we have a full range of different apple varieties. If you click on the plan on the right it will open in a new window so that you can read the different apple varieties.

More pictures of 5 December tree planting




Planting and staking trees on 5th December

Twelve apple trees planted

It was a perfect day for planting trees...the sun shone on us in the morning, the ground was soft and not too muddy, and then it rained late afternoon and evening. Thank you to everyone who came to help, and to Mary and Juliet for providing much needed hot drinks and biscuits! This is a picture of Mary Lachlan-Cope showing the group how deep to plant the trees.

Friday, 27 November 2009

Tree Planting 5th December


The tree planting for the Rock Road Library Book Garden is next Saturday 5th December. This will be from 10.30 to 12.30 and the aim is to actually plant the trees between 11am and 12 noon so that we can be part of the BBC attempt to break the record for planting the most trees across the country in an hour, as part of National Tree Week. Further details about this can be found at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/treeoclock/