Cllr. Hamish Pollock reports as Chair of Friends of Carshalton Park & The Ornamental Garden: ” The Council have recently given the trees, shrubs and bushes a bit of a hair cut which had become very necessary in this strip between Ruskin Road and Talbot Road, which is used a cut-through to the Carshalton Park main gates up from the Village. I met officers from the Council’s very busy parks department on a very cold Friday morning to discuss this garden and many other parks-related matters throughout the borough. An awful lot of dead wood has been removed recently. The council have recently ordered a significant amount of new plants for “filling the gaps” in this century-old garden including myrtle, paeonies, bee buckthorn, leycesteria, pittospoum tenuifolium and berberis. Last autumn the Friends of Carshalton Park planted a huge number of bulbs in the garden and hopefully these will appear soon after the long cold weather snap.”

Ornamental Garden, Ruskin Road on 8th February 2013