Swadlincote's Secret Garden

         I cycled into town today to go to the library as well as a few other errands and a general mooch.  I had passed, but not looked at with any care a lovely little garden on Main Street, to the left of the Wesleyan Chapel just off the Delph.

       The sign said welcome, so in I went.  This triangle used to be a patch of scrubby wasteland and it has been transformed into a little Eden.  Quiet, due to where it is situated, there is a bench one can sit on to relax, picnic, read or simply enjoy your surroundings

      From the gate and bench a looping gravelled path takes you round the little garden.  There is a bird table and bird feeding station.  The summer bedding plants are out now; pinks, oranges, purples and greenery.  Youthful perennial shrubs huddle low at the moment but will thrive, grow and fill the wood chipped flower beds in time.  I saw a buddlea and several hydrangea's.

          There are sweet peas in flower now and various plants that my plant knowledge is too limited to recognise, but experts will take pleasure in recognising.

        Long may this remain a beautiful, peaceful Lilliputian Oasis.  Bravo and thank you to the individuals and teams who created it.