At lunchtime today six pupils from Marlborough St Mary’s arrived at St Peter’s Church to help plant the St Peter’s contribution towards the Platinum Jubilee ‘Queen’s Green Canopy’.
Assisted by Marlborough St Mary’s teachers – Mrs Pawlaczek and Mr O’Reilly – Oliver, Harry, Juliet, Annabel, Jessica and Pippa enthusiastically set about planting the thirty saplings along the South wall boundary of the old churchyard that in years to come will form an impressive hedge.
The saplings are part of the Jubilee celebration and arrived as a result of an application to the Woodland Trust by the St Peter’s. Very recently thirty saplings arrived for the St Peter’s contribution to the ‘Queen’s Green Canopy’.
Gardening expert Amelia Trevethick explained that there were a selection of five types of sapling – Hawthorn, Dogwood, Crab Apple, Dog Rose and Hazel, all to mix to create a diverse and colourful hedge in the years to come, when Oliver, Harry, Juliet, Annabel, Jessica and Pippa can each proudly point to the (by then) impressive screen on the edge of the St Peter’s grounds and say ‘I helped to plant that….!’
Marlborough 2nd Scout Group doing ParkRun to raise money for Scout Hut
