Adopt-A-Plot

Do you have an overgrown and unloved public plot near you? This might be a neglected planter, an overgrown verge, a scruffy corner of a car park or just an odd bit of ground left over from building works.

Adopt-a-Plot is an initiative sponsored by Sherborne In Bloom to encourage volunteer gardeners to plant and maintain those overgrown plots. All over the town groups of friends, neighbours, schoolchildren and well-wishers have joined together to transform some of the previously neglected sites and bring them back into cultivation.

So far, the following plots have been adopted by volunteers:

• Culverhayes Flower bed – Sherborne Outreach
• Kitt Hill Seating Area – Eleanor and friends and neighbours
• Digby Road Bus Shelter Area – Judy Thurman and Sherborne Boys School
• A30 Coldharbour Roundabout – AFB Accounts for Businesses
• Top of Town Roundabout – Sherwoods Letting Agents
• Planters Cheap Street – Branching out – Maureen McDermott
• Newland Car Park Fence – 6th Form Gryphon School
• Bristol Road on the corner – Young People
• Bristol Road Grass Verge – Young People
• Bristol Road Coldharbour Car Park Seating Area – Young People
• Pageant Gardens
• Bandstand – Gryphon School
• Rectangular beds – Sherborne and District Guides and Brownies
• Rectangular Bed – Sherborne and District Scouts and Cubs
• Sensory Garden – The Gryphon School
• Round bed – the Abbey School Gardening Club
• The Masonic Lodge, Digby Road, Year 9 Gryphon School
• Sustainable Floral Banners Horsecastles – The Gryphon School
• Sustainable Floral Banners – The Gryphon School
• Sherborne Police Station – The Gryphon School
• Sherborne Station Car Park verge – Sherborne Beekeeping Association

If you would like to help maintain any of these, please let us know. Alternatively, do you know of a plot not on this list that you would like to bring to our attention?

For example, would anyone like to sponsor the planting of the Castleton Electricity Substation at the corner of Long Street/ New Road? This is a seriously overgrown plot that we have (at last!) been given permission to plant.

The efforts of the plot adopters made a tremendous difference to Sherborne In Bloom last year and we’d like to follow this success with even more participation this year!