Friends of the Library Garden Newark

08/05/2026

Resharing from our friends at PNGS. Thank you and happy birthday Sir David Attenborough for knowing about and supporting the Library Garden. Happy 100th birthday to you! 🎂💚
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08/05/2026

Happy big birthday to Sir David Attenborough, who knows about and has supported our wonderful Library Garden 💚

30/04/2026

We wholeheartedly support this brilliant initiative to keep our parks poison free! Well done Extinction Rebellion Newark and Sherwood and Newark and Sherwood District Council👏 💚

🍃POISON-FREE PARKS IN NEWARK & SHERWOOD🍃
Three cheers for Newark and Sherwood District Council who have agreed to end the spraying of toxic chemicals on all children's play areas across the District with immediate effect 👏👏👏
This is a pilot scheme and here at PNGS we hope it will become permanent. If you feel the same, we encourage you to thank NSDC for this positive initiative. We understand that the work of Cllr. Dr. Simon Forde ([email protected]) and Councillor Paul Peacock([email protected]) was key to this successful proposal to protect our children, wildlife and environment.
Cllr Forde kindly credits Extinction Rebellion Newark and Sherwood for drawing his attention to the need to take up this initiative.

29/04/2026

A little slice of heaven right in the middle of Newark! 💚🌳 Have you visited the Library Garden recently?

06/04/2026

Happy Easter to all our friends and followers!🐣🐰

Some of our volunteers spent a busy couple of hours in the garden on Easter Sunday morning.

Amanda, Sallyanne, Darren and Darrell worked together to tick the following tasks off the 'to do' list:

✅️ Watered the willow arches and other plants
✅️ Weeded the planters
✅️ Fed the birds
✅️ Did a bit of strimming
✅️ Treated the pond for blanket w**d
✅️ Planted saplings in the hedges

Thanks all for turning out on Easter Sunday 💚 🐣🌼

23/03/2026

Missing specs alert! Let us know if they are yours. 👀

09/03/2026

💚 That exciting update we promised...the Library Garden now has three willow arches! They were built by a group of Friends volunteers last week, along with a hazel wigwam. We think they're great additions to our community garden, which visitors will be able to enjoy in months to come.

Thanks to Andrea and Steve from Willow Holt - Farndon Residents Environment group, who provided and cut the willow for us. 💚

06/03/2026

The Friends have been busy in the garden! In the past week, we've:

🪏 Weeded the brick path around the library.

🌼 Seeded the woodland areas with woodland wild flower seeds.

🌱 Removed grass clumps from the wild flower areas and prepared those areas for seeding.

🧑‍🌾 Strimmed some long grass areas.

🥀 Raked up cut flower stems and put them in the composter.

🌷Trampled over the cut flower areas to dislodge any retained seeds.

Thank you Sally-Anne, Maria, Riikka, Darren, Darrell, Carl and Ali. Great team effort! 💚

And we also have more exciting updates to bring you over the weekend! ✨

22/02/2026

💚 In case anyone is wondering and hasn't seen the signs in the garden, this is why we've left the wild flowers long over the winter. ❄️🌨☃️

20/02/2026

Working hard in the garden. 👩‍🌾👨‍🌾💚 Our volunteers meet up regularly to tend to the Library Garden, rain or shine.

Here's Chrissy, Ali and Darren, who joined other volunteeers for a tidying session earlier this month.

Volunteer Jenni, who took the pic, said: "We have been so busy w**ding and planting wild daffs, snowdrops, and bluebells, clearing the path on the Beaumond side of the library and trimming suckers from the tree. We also tidied the rill, emptied the rain water container and put it into the other one, so it can fill up again, saving water."

Thanks to Darryl, David, Darren, Ali, Riikka, Carl, Jenni and Chrissy for your efforts! 💚🙏✨️