Oaken Grove Park - cleaned pond, new oaks and revamped wildflower beds.

The Thatchers Orchard we planted in late spring is doing very well. We planted 10 trees and it looks like at least 9 of them have taken. We organised weekly watering sessions during the summer and that seems to have helped them get going. We'll water them for at least the first couple of years to help them properly establish.

We also organised with Wild Maidenhead and Good Gym the cleaning of the Sir Nicholas Winton pond in the summer. This year was very successful and we rehomed all the fish and then dig out many wheel barrow loads of sludge. It looks a lot better now and the water and the fountain is clear.

We locally sourced some oak saplings and planted 14 of them in the park and protected them with woodchip mulch. So overall we have planted 24 trees in the park this year - 10 apple trees and 14 oaks. Very good! Oaken Grove Park will finally have a Grove of Oaks!

Finally for this year we have been renovating the wildflower beds with a view to bringing them back to life in time for a good display next year! We hired a scarifier and got offas much of the grass as we could. The beds are now ready for Saturday 14^th of December when there's a Wild Maidenhead event with The Friends of Oaken Grove Park to reseed the beds and plant lots of daffodils. So that should look nice for 2025!