This was Sheila's first visit to Braywick Plant Nurseries since the announcement was made that it is due to close at the end of the year. Despite this, we continue to care for and nurture the plants. While the students from Talkback pruned the overwintering perennials, I was given the task of re-labelling the plants which had lost their original labels. It was a great test of my plant knowledge!

Today's session at Braywick Plant Nursery was setting things to rights after the storm. I spent the morning righting pots which had blown over, re-uniting labels with their plants and clearing twigs and branches which had blown down from the oak tree

Moving plants around was the order of the day at Braywick Nursery. We started outside, moving all the perennials onto accessible benches as autumn begins to set in. When the rain started we moved into the glasshouse, and transferred all the pansies in flower so that they could be seen more easily, and making sure that a the six-packs all had a full complement of plants

Karen and Sheila were on throwing -out duty today at Braywick Heath Nurseries. It was out with all the annuals which were past their prime and could not be sold We managed to save some which still looked in good condition - hopefully they will be found a nice new home. The rest will benefit the compost heap!

Karen went to Braywick Heath nurseries and spent the morning filling six packs (the pots, not the toned muscles!) with compost in preparation for the autumn plug plants being delivered. Working with one of the employees, they filled several hundred trays which are now ready to be planted up. Happily there was a large fan in place to keep them cool as they worked.

Karen and Sheila helped out at Braywick Heath Plant Nursery and were given the sad task of disposing of plants which hadn't been sold and which had succumbed to heat/dehydration/old age. We pulled out the plant labels to be used again, emptied out the pots and took all the dead plants to the compost heap. We consoled ourselves with the fact that at least they would be turned into compost and used to grow fresh plants next spring.