A special garden in Shifnal has received a financial boost towards a restoration project. The Millennium Sensory Garden in Innage Lane has benefited from two grants.
Shifnal Town Council and the Welcome Break Charitable Fund in Telford presented funds to the gardens.
“We are very grateful for the generous support towards our latest project which involves us restoring and renewing parts of the site,” said volunteer Angela Standley. “The gardens were opened in 2002 to celebrate the Millennium and provide a public place of lasting beauty, accessible to all. We have charitable status and are maintained by a dedicated group of voluntary gardeners and funded by donations, grants and fundraising events.”
Volunteers are assisting in the latest project and recently 500 new seasonal plants were added to the ‘serenity circle’ beds, using colours to commemorate this year’s is VE Day 80th anniversary milestone.
The garden is hosting a plant stall on 7 June from 11 am and ‘tea in the gardens’ on 13 July from 2-4pm with entertainment from the Cadence Singers, Shifnal Male Voice choir and a question time session with Martin Gee of Weston Park and Middlemarch, a Wildlife Trust consultancy.
CAPTION: Shifnal Millennium Sensory Garden volunteer gardeners Angela Standley, John Webber, Graham Strangwood, Sue Webber, Jonathan Pierce.
