F-Troop - Monday 30th July 2012

A sunny day for F-Troop at last which was a relief as the projects are piling up because we have either not been able to get out on the course due to bad weather or we have not had enough helpers.

Today was all good with twelve helpers on hand and some good concreting weather.

We had Trevor Harrison, Martin Gallagher, Duncan Dyer, George Foster, Garry Trigg, Rob Benson, Warren Gray, Des Wilson, Peter Martin, Di Beechey, Anne Burgess and Jan Martin.

Peter, Trevor, Rob, Duncan, Warren & Des worked on the concrete footings for the cart shed.

George  and Martin did rubbish pick up and worked with Di and Anne at the wedding garden replacing the path timber supports.

Di & Anne did their usual clean up of the car park and BBQ area & then worked on the wedding garden area and planted some succulent plants at the garden at the 4th.

I worked on the garden at the 2nd tee trimming shrubs, dead heading the streletzia, trimmed the tibouchina and weeded and raked the gardens and paths.

Morning tea was very welcome on such a cold day & we enjoyed it out in the sunshine of the front gardens.
Thanks Chef John! We welcomed back Geoff Bridge who has just returned from his golf holiday in Canada.
Geoff will be back on duty next week after a couple of weeks off.

After morning tea we had a visit from Bev Reynolds and Rhonda Chapman who recently donated some bulk succulent plants for our gardens - with more to come.  Rhonda bought with her some lily bulbs for us to plant into our gardens.  I took Bev & Rhonda out to the new succulent gardens so they could see the results and where their donated plants now live.  Neither Bev or Rhonda are Members of the club which makes the donations even more special.

Today we received a nice donation of succulent plants from Annette Dunk which Anne has planted out on the 4th garden.  Thanks Annette!

Our timber sales are going well and we are able to fund the purchase of new path support boards and new gravel for our wedding garden as well as the purchase of more grasses for the 15th fairway.

We have entered our gardens in the Gosford City Garden Competition for this year and hope to duplicate our success of last year when we won the "Best Commercial Garden".

YES! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!