Volunteers set up landscaping maintenance

2021

Based on the suggestion of an enthusiastic club member for a landscaping maintenance group, a "Nature Working Group" was established in the summer of 2019. After announcing the scheme in the club's newsletter, twelve members joined and have been working on the grounds of our golf course once a month since September 2019. Many of the volunteers are living in apartments and no longer have a garden to tend to but still enjoy maintaining natural spaces. So far, rhododendrons have been pruned, which due to the drought of 2018 had dead branches; blackberries have been removed from flowering rhododendrons, azaleas and gales; little trees have been removed from the heather, and wild roses and other shrubs were planted to increase biodiversity. The members of this group are walking much more consciously through the golf course now and are proud to contribute to the biodiversity of the land.