Volunteer gardening crew blitz gardens back to life | My Garden Path | Gardening Australia
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We’re visiting the large, shady garden of Gloria McGrath, who’s one of the clients looked after by the team at Easy Care Gardening. It’s a not-for-profit organisation that uses volunteers to help older people maintain and safely take care of their gardens.
She signed up for Easy Care Gardening as soon as she heard about it. “I thought it was a good idea; I was living alone and still had a lot of palms then, and I have trouble reaching up so I can’t cut anything. We took 20 dead palm fronds down last year and it took 6 weeks to fit them in the green bin!”
Easy Care Gardening is a charity that visits 3-4 times a year and does a major ‘blitz’ of jobs that are too hard for clients, who are frail older people living in their own homes in four northern Sydney municipalities. It started in 1988 with 31 clients and just 4 volunteers - now there are 1000’s of clients and hundreds of volunteers - but Larissa says they’re always looking for more!
Larissa is one of the coordinators for Easy Care, and a horticulturist. She says they rely on volunteers to get the work done, and Gloria’s garden is one of her favourites to visit.
Everyone gets started on the work and Costa chips in to help rake and clear some overgrown groundcovers. He also puts down 5-10 sheets newspaper under the mulch to suppress weed germination and reduce the amount of visits required for weeding.
Jo Toomey is a volunteer and a nurse, and so recognises the importance of keeping older people living in their homes. Kaz is another volunteer who enjoys the company of his colleagues the most. Lesley is another volunteer who loves hearing stories from Gloria. Volunteer Wayne Corrigan works on removing dangerous palm fronds.
Hugh Hamlyn-Harris is a volunteer and the secretary. “I’ve been out gardening with teams - I’m a keen home gardener, but not an expert, but I’m learning a lot as I go from the experts so it’s good. I’m interested in helping older people to stay at home and enjoy their surrounds.” He notes Easy Care has 350 volunteers and cares for around 1000 people.
Morning tea is a vital part of the day’s proceedings. Gloria loves the feeling of being in a community, and says the garden has only become more important since making the choice of staying in her home.
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gardening keeps you younger, and mentally and physically younger. I am 73 and volunteer at a local school garden to table which is very rewarding to see children getting an appreciation of growing veg and cooking and learning table manners, many having not sat a table to eat.
Gardening is so restorative! Glad you enjoy it Pru :)
Such a beautiful community endeavour. Lovely story Costa. 💞💗💞👍🏽
Awesome!! Good on you volunteers!❤
Wow...Great Job. I do by myself everyday in my small garden .It makes.me healthy,and fun right.
thank you for always giving the best
Thanks for the kind words and for watching!
Wow, this was so inspiring on every level. Wonderful, wonderful volunteers and fantastic , lively , engaged owner. The garden, the deck, the spirit of connection. 10\10!
So glad you enjoyed it - thanks for watching!
Just amazing. I always love the before and after shots of any garden clean-up. Cheers to Gloria for showing us that 'gardening' is the staff of life. 👍👍❤️😘❤️😘🇦🇺
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.
fantastic wish we had something like this team in victorian rural areas, people like me with a disability like to do the gardening too but find it difficult and rather than ask local council who expect you to surrender all independance for a fee, i would rather do what i can, when i can until i cant do it anymore. Beautiful garden and beautiful people. Enjoyed this clip
Hi Skye, we're glad you enjoyed the video! There may be an equivalent group in Victoria, you could get into contact with the group featured in this video, Easy Care Gardening or contact the Garden Clubs of Australia who may be able to provide a recommendation. Thank you for watching!
how wonderful!! having beautiful volunteer people doing such a wonderful things for people!************
It's brilliant, isn't it? Thanks for watching!
thank you :)
Healthy life with Nature
Good job gues
I love this!!
We do too, thanks for watching!
so... what can we do about a burning landscape? now that we have changed the climate...
Oh it would be great if they could come to the Mascot area.. I'm not 93 but and I don't have that big beautiful garden like that lady has, I cannot do and the worst is I don't know what to do in the litle garden I have... it is more like a long patio then a garden but at the back the trees keep on groying and I cannot possible do any thing with them
Oh don't get me wrong I love them I just love green and all nature especially flowers but I can not grow flowers because the sun can not get in because we are 1&1/2 metres under street level and the trees grow much taller then that ... oh if I could only have the help that that lady has even if it's only once a year...
Thanks for watching. They provide a pretty amazing service - if you would like to look them up their name is Easy Care Gardening.
Garden litter removal is stupid