A Phormium Shared is a Phormium Halved

On a perfect sunny March morning Jacqueline, Luana and Steve met our mission host Sue to help out at Marsha Phoenix Trust - a fantastic organisation that provides supported housing for homeless young women.

Today we would be helping out with a few tasks to keep ahead of the peak of gardening work as spring gets into swing and everything starts growing like crazy. Welcome Luana for her second ever GoodGym session - we hope to see you soon at a group run!

Luana and Jacqueline got to work weeding, tidying and dead-heading some plants while Steve Joined Sue to dig up an enormous (phormium? Sue knows everything about plants and it was hard to keep up with all of the names!).

As the sun shone down and post-run legs started to relax while Goodgym upper body muscles engaged, we made great progress by the time Sue provided a round of tea and biscuits. One final push to extract the (I think…looks it up online... yep I’m pretty sure it’s a Phormium…) from the ground, split it into two and then re-plant it with half in a new location and the rest back in its original home.

A solid mission’s work done, we said our goodbyes and headed off to enjoy the rest of our weekends. Special congratulations to our mission host Sue, on completing the Couch to 5k programme - we can’t wait to see you at Hilly Fields Parkrun!