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Walled Garden Opening 2022

5/2/2022

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The Walled Garden will reopen to the public on 1st March 2022 on the following days:
Tuesdays - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Wednesdays - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Thursdays - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Saturdays - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Sundays - 10:00am to 12:00pm
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Reopened (again !)

20/4/2021

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From the 24th April 2021 we will be reopening the Walled Garden to visitors and volunteers. Visiting will be slightly limited due to Coronavirus restrictions and also due to our ongoing regeneration work currently taking place.

We will be initially selling plants and later on in the year we will be selling our usual home grown vegetables and fruit.

​We look forward to seeing you again soon !
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We have reopened !

2/9/2020

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The Walled Garden has now reopened on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 10am - 12pm. We are currently selling fresh vegetables and fruit from the walled garden together with a small selection of plants. All money raised is reinvested by The Friends of Markeaton Park into the Walled Garden and putting on activities and Festivals (whenever next allowed) within the park for the benefit of visitors to the Park. We are always looking for volunteers  - please see our 'Volunteering' page and get in touch using the 'Contact Us' page. 
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Coronavirus Covid-19

22/3/2020

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Regrettably we have closed the Walled Garden to visitors and volunteers. The Craft Fair, Pond Dip and Walking Festival have been cancelled and we will make a decision shortly regarding our Festival of Music and Flowers. 
We really hope to see all of our regular volunteers and visitors soon. Take care everyone.
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A38 Proposed Derby Junction Road Works

24/2/2020

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The Friends of Markeaton Park support the petition to Save the trees in and around the Park:-

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/object-to-the-a38-road-development-around-derby-1

The ONLY way to achieve the zero target for emmissions, set June 2019 by the Conservative government, is to keep the trees and nature sites that absorb Carbon Dioxide. Works on the A38 will mean the loss of a substantial number of mature trees which form part of Markeaton Park.
 
Further more the work, which will be carried out over a number of years, will cause major disruption on the roads. The Friends of Markeaton Park are concerned that the disruptions will be detrimental to people visiting the park and to local businesses.

Please also see the following website for more information:- 

​https://www.a38derbychaos.org/
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GoodGym Derby

11/10/2019

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On Tuesday 17th September 2019 we were visited by 18 runners from the Derby Goodgym who helped us weed, prune and tidy up a section of rockery in the Park. The GoodGym runners visit a different place each week to help out with any worthy projects. Thank you so much for your help. If you are a runner and this is something you are interested in please see the Markeaton Park report and all the others at ​https://www.goodgym.org/areas/derby/reports
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Sainsbury's Volunteers

24/7/2019

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Many thanks to the volunteers from Sainsbury's Local at Morley Street, Derby who kindly gave their time to deal with our compost bins. We very much appreciate their help. Thanks also for their donation of vouchers which will help with the funding of our festival in August. Hope to see you there !
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Green Flag Awards 2019/20

23/7/2019

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We are pleased to have received another Green Flag Award this year in recognition of our management and hard work in maintaining and developing the Walled Garden. It gives us a great deal of pleasure to welcome both volunteers and visitors into the garden to enjoy this historic site. Please come and see us !
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Great News! We have been chosen for a COOP Local Community Fund grant

17/1/2019

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Between now and October 2019 you can help us raise funds to improve the walled garden at Markeaton Park simply by shopping at our local COOP stores.

​Click on the link below for more details:


https://membership.coop.co.uk/causes/29877



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Wreath Making Workshops December 2018

2/1/2019

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​​Some front doors would have been beautifully adorned this Christmas.
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Enjoying a Cream Tea in the Walled Garden

24/7/2018

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On 24th June we held our annual cream tea in the walled garden. Visitors enjoyed tasty home grown strawberries, homemade scones and a traditional pot of tea in the beautiful surroundings of our garden.
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Sunday 15 July 2018   Bird Watching for Beginners walk

15/7/2018

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Bird watching is always quiet in July to September, and with temperatures in the 70’s, birds were very scarce to-day.
 
Inevitably, a couple of Common Buzzards were seen soaring over the park, and towards the end, House Martins were chasing food over the lake, interspersed with dipping their beaks in the water for a drink as they flew threw.
 
Swifts were flying high, and it will not be long before they head south.
Just 15 species for the 90 minute walk with most sightings on the lakes. Plenty of juveniles, Coots in particular, and a pair of adult Mute Swans were repelling the public near the Mundy centre bridge, to protect their cygnets.
 
Next walk is Sunday 19th August, and Dawn will be leading the September (16th) walk whilst David is in Cyprus.
 
David Bennett 
 
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May 2018   Bird Watching for Beginners walk – Markeaton Park

15/7/2018

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On a glorious day with no cloud, but loads of people, 5 birders took the beginners walk at Markeaton park. 
 
The fine weather brought out the public, and unfortunately for us, the number of dogs not on leads, meant that we were seeing very few birds in the wooded areas.  So a count of just 20 species was low by our standards.
 
2 male Mandarin Ducks on the duck pond, plus a couple of Nuthatches were well seen, but the highlite and Bird of the Day was a female Goosander that flew into the duck pond area, and after a couple of fishing dives, flew back to the main lake.
Credit to Philip for that one and which we have named Philip. (Bit tough being a female bird!!)
 
Some of the nest boxes made at the recent nest box making session were spotted on the walk, including No 1 which was the one of the 3 nest boxes sponsored by Pamela.  If you are looking, they have all been painted green, with a number on the base, and there are 28 in the park plus 2 in the Walled Gardens. 
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April Bird Watching walk - finally no snow!

30/4/2018

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Having cancelled the walks for January and March 2018, it was good for the walk to get back to normal in April.
 11 people enjoyed a pleasant walk with 22 species sighted. Highlights included..
 A pair of Mallards with 8 ducklings the first noted breeding report for 2018.
 As happens at Markeaton, Nuthatches were very much in evidence and quickly scavenged the bird food we placed at strategic places.
 Summer migrants are starting to arrive, including a single male Blackcap, and a Chiffchaff.
 At the end of a 90 minute walk, we returned to find a pair of Mandarin Ducks on the duck pond by the craft village.
The 30 new nest boxes made at the recent FOMP nest box making session, have been erected around the park, with a Robin nest box and a Blue Tit nest box in the walled garden. We watch with interest!! 
Happy Birding
David Bennett   The Allestree Birdman blog.

February Bird Walk Report

The January 2018 Bird walk having been cancelled due to a surprise snow storm, 11 people turned up for the first “happening”, in February. This was the highest number of people on the walk and show that the Derby Live advertising is helping us.
Sadly the birds did not read the publicity and were quite thin on the ground. Pamela, coming as usual, heavily laden with bird foot brought out a good variety at the feeding table, and for a shear show of numbers, Nuthatches ruled the day.
Bird of the Day (BOD to fellow birders), was a perching Kestrel, visible for just long enough for us all to see before it went hunting.

Happy Birding
David Bennett   The Allestree Birdman blog.
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Birdwatching for Beginners Walks The 2017 Review

2/1/2018

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David Bennett, a Volunteer Ranger at the Severn Trent reservoir at Carsington Water, introduced a regular monthly Bird Watching for Beginners walk in 2006.
A similar walk was introduced by David at Markeaton Park, Derby in January 2017. In the first year, there were 11 walks, 43 bookings, enjoyed by 25 different people.
Each 90 minute walk was led either by Dawn or David, with Dawn covering the 2 months when David was not available. The walk tended to follow much the same route, although in May to September, a route taking in woods was preferred for seeing Summer migrants.
49 different species were logged as follows:-
            Seen on and in the water                                14
            Woodland and land birds                                29
            Flying over birds                                                4
            Summer Visitors                                                2
The choice of “Bird of the Walk” produced different results, with popular votes going to Kingfisher, Goosander, Green Woodpecker, Tree Creeper, Little Grebe, Goldcrest and Little Egret.
The walks will continue in 2018, still at 10.30am on the third Sunday of every month, and starting from the Walled Garden, with the first walk on Sunday 21st January 2018.
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Lovely Creations at theWreath Making Workshops - 13 and 16 December 2017

20/12/2017

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First Snow of Winter

26/11/2017

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Our new flowerbeds
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Our young gardeners

16/9/2017

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The young gardeners getting their certificates for completing 6 months of work and study in the Walled Garden.  Well done boys, it was a pleasure to work with you.

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2017 Newsletter

15/8/2017

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Toyota Apprentices complete projects in the Walled Garden

21/6/2017

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Toyota arranged for apprentices to come and complete some projects for the Walled Garden this June.  The projects included making us new trestle tables to display plants for sale, building us cold frames to harden off our young plants and they also provided a sliding dividing screen in the Bothy to enable us to make better use of the room.
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New trestle tables
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Finishing off the cold frames
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