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Well it is in a small part of Lawley
Richard from Wiggly Wigglers came up to our part of the world to plant the final tree in the new orchard and unveil a plaque to show when the orchard was planted.
Children from Puddle ducks pre-school group, their mums, members of Lawley Green Space Group and members of Telford and Wrekin council came down to join us to celebrate the opening of the orchard. We even had a shiny royal spade to plant the Shropshire damson tree with.

After Richard had planted the tree he enlisted all the children to 'firm the tree in'. The children made short work of firming it in and were then ready to each plant one of the 300 wildflowers we have.

Not before a quick photo opportunity with the children, Richard and myself was had.

We all got stuck in making holes for the plants, with the big-uns assisting where required.


Once the plants were tipped out of the pots, which funnily enough wouldn't come out until the bottom had been tapped with the well known gardeners magic tap, it works every time so it must be magic...

Once planted they were then watered in. We then moved on to putting some seed onto the new green roof on the habitat tower, I think there will be plenty of wildflowers growing here as the children made sure enough seed was added....

It was at this point though that the cry went up that they had found a dinosaur bone. Well as you can imagine finding a bone is a major issue and much frantic digging was done to help unearth it.

After a short time the bone was unearthed enough to allow the dinosaur experts to declare it was a very rare find, of not just a bone but the whole skeleton of the Wormus Wriggilus dinosaur. The reason why this dinosaur is so rare is that it looks like a normal tree root and it is easy to over look it. It was just as well we had children who knew their dinosaurs and knew it for what it was and not just a tree root.

The planting ceremony came to an end not long after that and it certainly ended on a high. It is hoped that another day can be arranged soon with the Puddle duck dinosaur hunters , as they are what it is all about. In the meantime the big-uns have still got plenty of work to do and I shall keep you up to date with our activities.

I would just like to thank once again Wiggly Wigglers for their donation and Telford and Wrekin Council and Telford and Wrekin Services for all their help.