Friends of Bebra Gardens

Working towards Green Flag status for Bebra Gardens in Knaresborough

Volunteer gardening days........ please scroll down 

Junior Soldiers from Harrogate's Army Foundation College dug out lots of old shrubs	This area has now been replanted

Wonderful News!!!! 

We were offered  £3,700 from Yorkshire Forward, if we could spend it all before the end of March! We managed to spend £3,470, so this was a real boost to the gardens! We were awarded £7,900 from Awards for All to pay for further planting-plans and for plants. 
This is now being spent over twelve months.

THE 'MASTERPLAN' FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE GARDENS WAS FUNDED BY AWARDS FOR ALL

Following the Masterplan we next had detailed planting plans drawn up for the first sections of the gardens and these plans were funded by Harrogate Borough Council. Then we were succesful in getting funding from  Renaissance Knaresborough, and from Knaresborough Town Council, all of this being to pay for a new fence and around two thousand plants. Volunteers removed the old fence from alongside the castle moat and local contractors put up a smart new fence. Volunteers then began planting near the paddling pool and all the way around the edge of the gardens to the main gates in Brewerton Street. With lots of help we removed old shrubs, dug the soil over, incorporated compost and put in all the new plants. Next we had funding from Yorkshire Forward and planted a large area in the centre of the gardens, as well as doing lots of weeding and general tidying.

With Lottery funding now in place we will continue with more planting in the Autumn.

Volunteer gardening days ...

During June 2009,  we will be in the gardens every Monday morning at 9am.....

PLEASE COME AND JOIN US!

Our next meeting is Thursday 25th May 2009, at the Borough Bailiff pub 7pm.

Bebra Gardens, Brewerton Street, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK.

Hook-a-duck fun at our 2007 Spring Bank Holiday consultation event in the gardens.

Article of 8th Sept 2006 click here	Knaresborough Post article of 7th February 2007 click here

Following installation of the new fence the beds were dug over and planting began, February 2008.

 

Who we are
We are local people living in Knaresborough who have formed a group to improve this park in our town.

What we do
We have been meeting monthly since August 2005 and are a properly constituted group. We work closely with Harrogate Borough Council "Parks" and we are hoping to make Bebra Gardens a more vibrant and attractive part of the town of Knaresborough. There is a super new sign inside the main entrance. Some trees have been taken out around the entrance and near the rockery. The rockery is planted with alpines and around the entrance we have planted six hundred polyanthus to brighten the gardens over winter.

We put out to tender the job of designing a masterplan for a way forward to improve and develop all of the garden. Funding for the design came from the AWARDS FOR ALL grant which we were succesful with in 2007.. The Master Plan is complete and we have started to replant. We were not succesful with our 'Playful Ideas' grant application to install a childrens play water feature, so we are working towards a better specification of equipment before making new applications for that. We have been succesful applying to Awards for All to help with further funding for detail design plans and more plants.

If you know where to stand you can enjoy this view from Bebra Gardens.	Much pruning was done last year.
Pruning has opened up some views.	Volunteers planted almost a thousand shrubs and herbaceous plants in the gardens, Spring 2008.

Website by Councillor Andrew Willoughby.

Links

Knaresborough Today

Knaresborough In Bloom

Knaresborough Nidd Gorge Conservation Group