What is going on?

Round about the 25th of last month I noticed the local council gardening team was up to some think...

Then a few days later while I was walking home.  I had a nasty shock, the gardening team had removed all the wire fencing.  The place looks a complete mess..

The Saint John's Gardens do not look that bad  from the picture above. Right?

It is only when you get up close and have a good look you see how bad the gardens look.

The three pictures below you will see what I mean.  They have ripped up the all the shrubs and bush's, some roses too! 

Very sad to see

I am trying my best to find out what is going on!

Will find out and update you all!!

Selfie with tree!

Not a lot is happening to my Grandmother's tree.  Every time I go I look to see what's new or if any new plants at the base or any scary spiders moved in... But nothink!!

Spring is coming

I think I can definitely say winter as hint my

 'Prunus Padus Grandiflora' and the little Victorian Gardens that it is in..

I have noticed the past couple of times I have walked past the gardens how the place looks a bit run down and well used too... Sad thing I've noticed is some one as pulled down the wired fence...  I am not entitle sure what or how the Victorians would feel to see the place now... I guess heart broken! 

I decided to do some digging to find out more about the gardens...  So I dig out my Dorset books to do some research.... 

This is what I have discovered about the land that the gardens are situated on was owned by Sir Frederic Johnston (a Conservative party member).

Sir Frederic Johnston was also the same man that own Greenhill Gardens ( which I am working on a post about).. I believe Frederic also owned the Alexandra Gardens too... 

Back to the little gardens I learnt Sir Frederic Johnston gave the land to the local council for the gardens. He wanted local people who did not have a garden have a place to go...

The gardens was opened on Wednesday 20th July 1904 and was named Saint Johns Gardens.

The picture below is how the gardens looked once opened..

Which to me makes kind of sense... Has up and around the corner is Saint Johns Church. Across the road from the church was the school, also called Saint Johns... Now stands an block of flats where the school was...

Back to Saint Johns Gardens, the Prunus Padus Grandiflora has lost its leaves. But there is signs of Spring is on its way... 

There are buds!