Worth Abbey
Quiet Garden

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Press Release August 2000
Sussex Heritage Trust Award
Mallards
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News

This page contains news items of what is known to be happening in and around the Quiet Garden. The newest items are at the top.

31st May 2003	The grass snake (two foot long) is discovered sun-bathing on a rock and swims away.
29th May 2003	A heron was disturbed just after killing a roach.
26th May 2003	This year's unusually friendly pair of Moorhen have produced their first brood of five chicks. The parents come towards people for food to take back to their nest on the island.
17th May 2003	Completed a return for a national survey of bluebells. See: Bluebells For Britain. Only one small area contained Spanish Bluebells; most of the garden has clumps of genuinely Native Bluebells.
25th Apr. 2003	A new batch of carp are given to the pond: 2 Golden Koi, 5 black goldfish, 3 white goldfish, 2 large red and 11 small red goldfish - 23 in all. Spot the connection with the Gospel of the day!
30th Jan. 2003	First blooms of the year are a pink Camellia and a very early Daffodil. Snowflakes follow soon after.
27th Feb. 2002	First newly planted Camellia in bloom. Drainage developments and tidying. More ducks in close-up
14th Feb. 2002	The ducks are pairing. Spring bulbs are flowering - Snowflakes and Daffodils
11th Nov. 2001	Seasons confused - a new family of Mallard ducklings appeared on Remembrance Sunday.
16th Jul. 2001	Filming in the Worth Abbey Quiet Garden for a Channel 4 Programme 'My Eden', to be broadcast next summer.
4th Jul. 2001	Worth Abbey Quiet Garden is awarded First Place in the Landscape category of the Sussex Heritage Trust Awards.
24th Jun. 2001	Two families of Mallard ducklings appeared one of three, the other of eleven.
31st Mar. 2001	Last of the winter leaves cleared away
1st Mar. 2001	Following the advice of the farming community, the Garden is closed to the public as a precaution in the Foot and Mouth epidemic. The access path is near grazing horses and there are many wild dear crossing the area.
13th Feb. 2001	Planting of four Camellia bushes
5th Dec. 2000	Pictures of plants on 'Plants' page
4th Dec. 2000	Some planting of donated shrubs:- Potentilla 'Daydawn' Hydrangea (White)
1st Dec. 2000	Article on Worth Abbey Quiet Garden in the newsletter (No. 11) of the Quiet Garden Movement
10th Oct. 2000	Web site launched
1st Aug. 2000	Press release issued (text)

 

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Jesus said to them, "Come away with me. Let us go alone to a quiet place and rest for a while." (Mark 6:31)