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Community gardening project in Ashby de la Zouch growing flowers to give away and bring joy to others.

15/10/2026

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07/09/2026

ALPHA

STARTING THIS WEEK ON THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER AT 7:30PM IN ASHBY

Local folk, we know this won’t be for everyone - but if it might be for you, we’d love to have you with us!

If it helps to know there will be at least one familiar face, Sarah is involved in hosting this.

Our DMs are open!

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Alpha is a series of interactive sessions that freely explore the basics of the Christian faith.

It includes a meal, a short video and time to talk and listen to others - and is particularly designed for those who wouldn’t describe themselves as Christians.

WHAT’S NEW?
This term, alongside those who don’t have a Christian faith, we will be also welcoming people who are fairly new to, or returning to faith and are wanting to cover - or rediscover - the basics of Christianity.

SO, WHO IS ALPHA FOR?
Alpha might be for you, if ANY of the following resonate:

⭐️ You’re spiritually curious - and interested in exploring Christianity for the first time, or the first time in a long time - but are not currently part of a local Christian church.

⭐️ You believe there is a God - and might describe yourself as a Christian - but you’re not really sure what you mean by that.

⭐️ You’ve begun exploring Christianity online - perhaps through YouTube, Social Media, or listening to podcasts - but are interested in meeting up with local Christians in Ashby.

⭐️ You had a Christian faith earlier in life (perhaps as a child, teen, or as an adult) and over time, you’ve drifted away, but you’re finding yourself wondering if there’s a way to reconnect.

⭐️ You’ve been going along to church at Holy Trinity, but are new to faith, or returning to faith and are wanting to cover the basics of Christianity with others.

If any of these are true for you - there’s a seat for you this term at Alpha.

Find out more and let us know you’re coming at trinityashby.net/alpha

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04/09/2026

We’re so grateful to be able to let you know that we’re good to go tomorrow! We’ll see you at Holy Trinity Ashby from 9.30am - and will be open until 11.

02/09/2026

Update: The Garden Room Event - Saturday 5 September

9:30-11:00am Holy Trinity Ashby, Kilwardby Street LE65 2FR

Prolonged periods of heavy rain have been just what all our gardens and plants needed - but sadly just what our poor flowers didn’t need, the week before our last flowery event of the season! 😢

Over the last few days, we’ve been deadheading all the rain-damaged flowers across our growing spaces - and working out how much is still OK to give away.

The good news: Unless it rains solidly for the next 48 hours(!) we hope to have some flowers to share this weekend - the bad news: not in anywhere near the quantities we’d normally hope for in early September.

If you fancy flexing your creative talents to show how less can be more - and small is beautiful, we’d love to have you with us! 😂

Join us on Saturday for:

🫖 ☕️ 🍰 Free Tea, coffee and cake in The Garden Room Cafe at the back of church.

🌺 🫙 ✂️ A modestly stocked ‘flower bar’ with everything you need to create a pretty little miniature posy in a jam jar to take home or give away.

✉️ 🌱 A special Sweet Pea seed giveaway. We’ll be giving away tiny packets of five fresh sweet peas from this summer’s sweet pea harvest. You can plant these seeds at home in mid-October and overwinter in a sheltered position, to give you early flowers next spring - or save the seeds until after Christmas and plant them in January.

We’ll look forward to seeing you on Saturday!

P.S. If it continues to rain heavily over the next 48 hours, we may need to review. Please pop back here on Friday night at 8pm when we’ll confirm if we’re good to go ahead on Saturday! 😊

27/08/2026

So grateful that between us, we were able to get the last of the sweet pea seed harvest in, around 8am this morning, just before the storm. ⛈️ It’s been a tough year for sweet peas - but the harvest is plentiful 🫛🫛🫛 This isn’t even all of them…

12/07/2026

SAVE THE DATE - Saturday 5 September 9:30am-11.00am

Thanks so much to all those who came along to make jam jar bouquets with us this weekend!

It was great to spend time chatting with a few folk who were able to join us for the first time - or the first time in a while.

There won’t be a Saturday morning event at Holy Trinity next month (August)- our next ‘Make a Jam Jar’ event at this venue will be on Saturday 5 September.

It’ll be peak dahlia season - and we’d love to have you with us!

[Photo: some of the beautiful flowers from this weekend]

10/07/2026

Join us tomorrow at 9.30am!

It’s been super hot again this week 🥵 but we’re excited to share more flowers with our community this weekend.

This month, think plenty of snapdragons and fennel and the first of our beautiful dahlias!

We’d love to invite you to put together a couple of jam jars with us tomorrow morning - one to take home and enjoy - and one to give away to someone else.

Make a Jam Jar Bouquet (and one to give away)
Saturday 13 June 9:30-11:00am
Holy Trinity Ashby
Kilwardby Street
LE65 2FR

This free event is being hosted by local community gardening project The Garden Room.

12/06/2026

Join us tomorrow at 9.30am!

Each year since we started growing flowers to give away in our community, has had its own kind of beauty.

This year, an early, lengthy heatwave, followed by prolonged periods of heavy rain has created some particular challenges (and decimated most of the poor roses…) but we’re so grateful to still have plenty of flowers and foliage to share this weekend.

We’d love to invite you to put together a couple of jam jars with us tomorrow morning - one to take home and enjoy - and one to give away to someone else 😊

Make a Jam Jar Bouquet (and one to give away)
Saturday 13 June 9:30-11:00am
Holy Trinity Ashby
Kilwardby Street
LE65 2FR

This free event is being hosted by local community gardening project The Garden Room.

09/06/2026

WANTED: Empty Glass Jars

If you’re planning to come along to our free ‘make a jam jar bouquet’ workshop on Saturday morning, we’d be so grateful if you could bring along a jam jar or two (or three!…) 🫙🫙🫙 if possible, please.

Our stocks of small and medium sized jars are running a bit low - and we’d love to make sure we have enough jars for all attendees this weekend!

No worries at all if you don’t have any jars to bring along - but hopefully between us we can make sure there are enough for everyone 🙂

Jam Jars (which don’t need to have contained jam!) need to be clean and empty - no lids required.

It would really help if you can remove the label and any remaining glue residue before bringing them along, so they are ready to be used as vases.

If you won’t be coming to the event on Saturday, but have some jars to donate, there is a clear plastic box inside the porch at Holy Trinity on Kilwardby Street. You’ll find a plastic box under the pew on the left hand side of the front porch, just before you enter the glass doors into the main church building.

Thanks so much - we’re looking forward to seeing you on Saturday!

28/05/2026

We sometimes get asked about the enormous perennial in the front bed next to the main pathway through Ashby Allotments. It’s Cephalaria Gigantea - a giant lemon-yellow scabious. It’s the kind of plant you sometimes see in large National Trust or RHS Gardens. Ours is shooting up rapidly - and we can’t wait to see it flower over the next couple of weeks!

Address

Holy Trinity Church
Ashby De La Zouch
LE652FR

Website

http://trinityashby.net/tgr

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