After two days in the Provost's Garden things have changed, the faded rose blooms have been gone, weeds removed and edges tidied and a rather large marquee has been erected. However, behind this marquee a smaller one has also been erected for the catering, marquees in all shapes and sizes are appearing at a staggering rate, seen in numbers on the Nuffield Lawn.
The hundred or so roses now need dead heading in the Provost's Rose Garden. On the hottest day of the year, I think it reached 33 degrees, Simon, Ali and Kieron spent the day chopping off the faded blooms. By the end of the day the roses looked refreshed but the three gardeners were wilting, but they will be back tomorrow, the borders are in need of a weed and the grass needs edging, cooler temperatures please!
With Joe completing his apprenticeship and departing for Kenya, we have a new member of our team. Callum, our new apprentice, 19 years old, started yesterday and will be working with us for the next two years, welcome to Worcester College.
The Privet hedge that borders the car park and greenhouse area was last trimmed at the beginning of July last year and was in desperate need of attention. Greeting Ady as he arrived for work everyday, he couldn't stand looking at this messy hedge any longer, so with Kieron, they worked together to bring it back to its wavy best, same time next year hedge? 
Finally managed to get fairly close to the fox today and, although not the clearest of photos, it let me take these pictures before it ran off again.
June is the month for the hedge trimming around the college to start. Graham and Simon worked together to trim the longest hedge, a box hedge that borders our nursery area.
Kieron and Ady worked together on another hedge, this one outside the college grounds, on the junction of Walton Street and Beaumont street. Dressed in high visibility vests they taped off the sections of pavement next to the hedge and worked their way along using the high reach hedge trimmer.
