PICTURES: Visitors admire Beauly Cares Community Garden in all its glory as it opens its gates
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Colourful blooms and a wide range of vegetable produce – plus a new gazebo – were admired by visitors to a community garden.
Beauly Cares Community Garden threw open its gates to the public to take a look at progression of the site which has been transformed over the years from an overgrown plot.
Visitors also enjoyed the home baking on offer.
The garden, which is tended by volunteers, is now in its eighth year.
Recently, a new all-weather wooden-framed gazebo has been added.
Volunteer Zane Wright thanked members of the Beauly Men’s Shed who had worked to put the structure together.
“It will make a big difference,” she said.
“It means we have cover when it is wet and it provides more social space for people to sit and enjoy the garden.
“It will also improve accessibility because wheelchairs can access it via the path.”
The garden is also set to benefit from the recent installation of a long-awaited water supply and tap.
“It means we can water the garden properly,” Ms Wright said.
“We will be able to grow more fruit and vegetables.
“We are always behind with the watering – we cannot keep up with the dry spells and the wind saps up the water from the soil.”
She said the volunteers were grateful to the Co-op’s Community Fund which had enabled the installation of the gazebo and other remedial work plus the support of the Beauly community.
An appeal has been issued for more volunteers particularly younger people to get involved with the garden.
