GREEN-FINGERED volunteers are needed to help create a new community garden in Salisbury.

Three green areas at Five Rivers Health and Wellbeing Centre will be transformed as part of the project.

Rebecca Twigg, who set up and runs The Secret Garden in Salisbury, is looking to create a Friends of Five Rivers Garden Group to move the project forward.

She said: “This is going to be quite a departure from the Secret Garden at St Clements church yard with its focus on the wild plants and will be a very traditional space, although both focus on being bee friendly.

“These three Five Rivers spaces will have year round interest and create a really welcoming entrance to the wellbeing centre.”

The garden will also be a haven for insects as Rebecca explains: “It’ll also have some bee boxes and a ‘bee bank’ and eventually we will make sure we hold talks there to chat about the planting scheme, plants for pollinators and benefits to people.

“I would love to leave this space, once planted, in the good hands of a gardening team, so an enthusiastic ‘friends of’ group seemed like the best idea.’’

Volunteers will also help with maintaining the garden in the future. Rebecca is looking for a volunteer to co-ordinate the group.

People can help the project by donating plants and garden vouchers, or grow plants from seed. Plants needed for the garden include:

  • Geranium phaeum 'album'
  • Geranium macrorrhizum ‘album’
  • Geranium 'orion'
  • Sysyrinchium striatum
  • Libertia grandiflora
  • Achillea (white/pinks/lilacs/reds)
  • Echinacea pallida
  • Cyclamen hederifolium and Cyclamen coum
  • Agastache 'black adder'
  • Hellebore (any)
  • Nepeta ‘six hills giant’
  • Digitalis lutea
  • Digitalis parviflora
  • Calamintha (any)
  • Bergenia (any)
  • Stachys bizantina
  • Penstemon husker red (or any other)
  • Veronicastrum (any)
  • Stipa arundinacea - Pheasant grass

To volunteer for the friends group, donate plants or for more information about the project get in contact with Rebecca via kingdomofsticks.com