East Bridgford Open Gardens was delighted to make a £1,000 donation to the East Bridgford Wildlife and Biodiversity Group this week.
This will pay for 3,000 early-spring flowering bulbs and rhizomes of English bluebell, wild garlic and wood anemone for planting in East Bridgford Springdale Wood on 25 April.
The Open Gardens event takes place most years (in 2026 it will be on Sunday, 7 June), and money raised from this special event supports Nottinghamshire Hospice and village projects.
Springdale Wood was purchased by the Woodland Trust as one of 250 ‘Woods on Your Doorstep’ to mark the millennium and was planted in November 1999 by local residents. The objective was to create a mixed-canopy tall woodland dominated by ash, birch, cherry and oak, an under-canopy of hazel, rowan and other woodland shrubs, and a ground layer of appropriate flowering plants. To achieve this, vigorous and oppressive goat willow is being coppiced in rotation. It is a wonderful facility, and these new plants will augment other recent planting (again provided by the Open Gardens), ensuring a blaze of spring colour in future years.
