After months of COVID lockdown the group of gardeners at Ferntree Gullly were really looking forward to getting together again to work and share in the community garden space.

On Sunday 21st of June the garden ‘re-opened’ for a working bee. Changes were put in place to keep everyone as safe as possible and the usual BBQ sausage sizzles was put on hold for the time being but that didn’t stop the industrious group from coming together (in the appropriate number and at the appropriate social distance!) and achieving great things.

The group began work on the garden’s labyrinth*, the outline was created by recycled brick with dwarf black mondo grass in between to define the look.

Work was also done re-planting beds with winter crops of climbing peas, broad beans, broccoli, kales and lettuces. This garden is only young but has already been so productive, responding to the passion and efforts of the volunteers that tend to it.

*A labyrinth is an archetype with ancient origins. It is a symbol that relates to wholeness; combining the shapes of circle and spiral into a meandering but purposeful path, a journey but also a metaphor. The path of the labyrinth takes you in to the ‘centre’ from which you return, by the same path, back again ‘out into the world’.