Gardening to Feel Good Groups - Late Summer Block
As the autumnal evenings begin to draw in and we move slowly into snuggly jumpers and yummy soup season, here’s a little reflection on our late summer block of Gardening to Feel good sessions here at Bloom.
We have been getting really creative throughout this block, from still life painting and sketching of gorgeous displays of gathered flowers from around the site, personal touches to pots and stone painting, sign making for the beds and even making little dragonflies from fallen sycamore seeds, it’s been an impressive gathering of creatives on site! We have also been using the flower press that we made and filled back in the spring! Using the flowers that the women of the first block kindly gathered and pressed for us to create cards and pictures with, lots of helping hands filled it with lots more flowers for the women of the next block to play with.
Along with the Gardening to Feel Good groups, we have been connecting with local charities and have really enjoyed welcoming groups of women from Mums in Need and the Refugee Council on to the site. It was so lovely having little ones and their creative and inquiring minds on the site, helping us all to open up our creativity and playfulness a little more, and helping to harvest all the berries, grapes, tomatoes, cucumbers and apples!
Jobs on site recently have been lots of weeding, deadheading, hardy annual seed sowing, seed saving, potting on and planting out, along with laying a new path and building a new herb spiral with a generous donation of lots of bricks!
And of course, the flowers during this time have been in beautiful abundance! We have all been enjoying picking lots of lovely bunches to take home and remind us of the garden. Some favourites of this block have been the Limonium, Scabiosa and Zinnia, along with the show stopping Dahlias!
And that brings our Gardening To Feel Good groups to a close for this year. However, we will be back again in 2023 when the garden begins to grow once more and the sun shows her face. If you would like to join us and feel like some time outdoors doing something productive would make you feel good, please contact cath@bloomsheffield.com.