Our new cycle shed with its living green roof is looking so lovely we thought we should have a little celebratory launch event for it - so it was officially 'opened' last Friday by members of the Wimbledon and Epsom & Ewell National Trust Associations who helped to fund it.
Paul installs our new water butt and Annie tidies the roof in preparation for the event (NTPL/Caroline Pankhurst)
We had some nice tea and scones (home-made by our cafe, of course), then John Little, who installed the green roof on the shed, talked about the benefits of green roofs in urban areas such as Morden.
John Little talks about his green roof (NTPL/Caroline Pankhurst)
Our visitors were amazed to see so much colour in the flowers on the roof and wanted to know all about how to water it and why we'd decided to give solitary bees a hotel.
Flowers on the roof (NTPL/Caroline Pankhurst)
Every opening event has to have a ribbon cutting, so Paul and Don, the Chairs from the two NT Associations obliged in cutting a green ribbon.
Paul and Don, Chairs of the Wimbledon and Epsom & Ewell NT Associations cut the green ribbon (NTPL/Caroline Pankhurst)
We then took our visitors for a look at the Archimedes Screw turbine, which they thought was suitably impressive.
The NT Members look at the Screw (NTPL/Caroline Pankhurst)
The remaining scones were then polished off and John did a spot of weeding for us on the roof.
John inspects his roof and pulls out a few weeds (NTPL/Caroline Pankhurst)
He found many more beautiful flowers than weeds, though:
Flowers on the roof (NTPL/Caroline Pankhurst)
The park is really grateful to the NT Associations for the support they give to us, which makes ideas such as the cycle shed become a reality. We hope that cyclists enjoy the new shelter and all of our visitors enjoy the beautiful new view behind the stable yard.
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