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Thornbury Community Garden
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Welcome to Thornbury Community Garden website. Now you're here why don't you have a look around?
This website still retains all info and photos of the original Garden, but also has several pages dedicated to the NEW Garden only.
The Original Community Garden on Gillingstool closed on 1st January 2007 because S. Glos Council sold the land the original garden was on, for housing development. As the Garden was so successful the Council gave us another derelict plot instead, to design and construct a new one.
The original Garden opened officially in 1999 and was a great success including winning the Points West Best Community Garden Competition in 2004, which was televised. I hope you enjoy reading about both gardens!
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The original Garden (formerly Siblands Sensory Garden), based at the Siblands Resource & Activity Centre, Thornbury was created in 1998 by the charity Avon Youth Association (AYA). The Garden was open every day and was an ideal place for quiet reflection. It was open to everyone, but particularly to disabled, partially-sighted and blind people.
The Garden incorporated natural resources that stimulate all the senses: touch (tactile plants/sculpture), sight (colourful flowers/sculpture), taste (herbs), smell (scented plants/herbs) and sound (water features/windchimes).
The Garden was completely accessible for wheelchair users and had a variety of herbs and wild flowers and several interesting features including a tactile sculpture, spinney, wild plant area, pergola, stream, nature pond and a convalescence area for lost/injured hedgehogs. There were raised flower beds and other features that enabled wheelchair users to participate fully in the planting, maintenance and enjoyment of the Garden.
The maintenance and development of the Garden continued to be a community venture supported by a team of intrepid volunteers. Much of the physical work was done by volunteers from HMP Leyhill open prison.
The centerpiece of the Garden was a 6ft sensory wooden sculpture carved from a single Beech log. It was sculpted by Dave Johnson and funded by Craig Tucker, a pupil at Castle School. Craig, a member of AYA was winner of the Lions International Youth Award, and he decided to use part of the bursary he received to sponsor the sculpture.
For information on Garden closure, please see the News page and why not spend a minute writing your comments in the GUESTBOOK which will continue to remain active and up-to-date as will this website!
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