Patiently planting the Impatients

A productive hour to help make my local community nicer to live in!

Taking advantage of my Power Hour for StreetTag I did a long loop to collect the tags and walk through the local Farm Shop to get some flowers for the planters at Hainault station courtesy of the StreetTag prize pot that 8 of us are now pursuing again! Must admit it's getting me to walk and cycle more and I try and keep my competitiveness at bay!

Using a loyalty discount I managed to get 12 plants for £4! Sadly they didn't have our favourite petunias but Impatients were the closest to them in structure so I decided to give them a go.

Once I got to the station I used our own key that was kindly provided by the station manager to us so that we can have access to water. With our watering paraphernelia in place, I - using James' technique of minimum spillage - I made many (many!) trips to water every single planter thoroughly as we've been having such a hot weather.

When everything was watered and litter was picked out, I got onto planting. The flowers have really spruced each planter well straight away especially the ones under the bridge where things struggle to grow. When planting I discovered that even though I watered everything twice the soil was still dry an inch in! So off I went to do a few more rounds of watering (rolls her eyes)!

Took me ages (not as fast without my fellow GG buddies!!!) but it was a satisfying job and the planters are looking super healthy with our visits in the last month - Sharon's wildflowers are looking good, the plants we planted starting to flower and the seeds I put in are coming out!

Will be back again tomorrow and this weekend as the sun is relentless!