The Summer was busy with volunteers working in the Gardens on various new projects.
The completion of the new look to the small rockery allowed us to establish this as the "Remembrance Rockery" in time for the August 4th Commemorations of the First World War.
A few months before we were helped by Newlyn School in the planting of small native red poppy plants around the rockery and In time these grew to remind us all of those who fought and died on the fields of France and Belgium during the turbulant years from 1914 to 1918.
We held a silent reminder on the evening of 4th August and the poem by Scottish war poet John McCrae "In Flanders Fields" was read out as we gathered around the Rockery before a silence of two minutes and the lighting of candles.
"In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below...."
The completion of the new look to the small rockery allowed us to establish this as the "Remembrance Rockery" in time for the August 4th Commemorations of the First World War.
A few months before we were helped by Newlyn School in the planting of small native red poppy plants around the rockery and In time these grew to remind us all of those who fought and died on the fields of France and Belgium during the turbulant years from 1914 to 1918.
We held a silent reminder on the evening of 4th August and the poem by Scottish war poet John McCrae "In Flanders Fields" was read out as we gathered around the Rockery before a silence of two minutes and the lighting of candles.
"In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below...."