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Newsletter Spring 2017 DUNORLAN PARK NEWS SPRING EDITION ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE is given that the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of THE FRIENDS OF DUNORLAN PARK (Registered Charity 1063715/0) will be held on Wednesday 19th April 2017 at 7.00pm in the Cafe in Dunorlan Park Any nominations for the Committee, Proposed and Seconded, should be with the Hon. Secretary by Monday 10th April The Reports and Accounts will be available, together with relevant documents including the Minutes of the previous AGM, for viewing at the meeting, or before the meeting, on request, from the Temporary Secretary. Following the meeting there will be a question and answer session and update from the Committee on current projects and initiatives Issued by the Temporary Secretary: Diana Lamb, 70 Woodside Road, Rusthall, TN4 8PZ. 01892 541875 Please come if you can - This AGM is particularly important because we are electing a new Chairman, new members for the Committee and new Secretary - so we really would like to see as many members as possible ! Issue 64 March 2017 1 of 9 MEMBERSHIP NEWS AND TWO RETIREMENTS The funds received by the Friends in the form of membership subscriptions and donations are very important as they help to fund projects such as the renovation of the island banks. Together with TWBC, we have already funded a £26,000 project to renovate the larger island and we hope, again with TWBC support, to renovate the smaller one at a total cost of about £22,000. At the beginning of 2016, and for the first time since the Friends were founded in 1997, we increased membership fees from £5 to £7 for individuals and from £10 to £12 for couples/families. Most membership standing orders are paid in January and we note that quite a significant number of members have not yet increased their standing order payments. We urge you to do this immediately and to consider sending a small donation if your payments have not yet been increased. Cheques should be posted to the Membership Secretary or paid direct into the Friends of Dunorlan Park bank account – Sort Code 20-88-13, Account number 10371033. Your Committee is in the process of redesigning and reprinting our membership publicity leaflet and also preparing an appeals leaflet specific to the island bank project. We will be doing all we can in future months to increase the overall size of our membership and to raise funds for the island renovation. Two key people who have given so much of their time and efforts are retiring in April. Diana Lamb is standing down as Committee Chair after 7 years in the post and 21years total involvement with the Friends. We all owe Diana a massive vote of thanks for her dedication to the Park and, just to take one example, for masterminding and project managing the first island renovation project. Fortunately, Diana has agreed to stay ‘at least for the time being’ on as Secretary on the Committee which will be hugely useful to us and to the new Chair in terms of continuity and wise words of advice. The second retiree is Tony Ewins, our wonderful Head Gardener who will also be greatly missed. Tony has been in post since August 2004 following the restoration of Dunorlan Park, and has achieved great things for us including helping to win the our Bloom and Green Flag awards. Tony has also managed groups of volunteers who have done so much to help the Park to look so good over the years. We all extend a great vote of thanks to you Tony – you will be greatly missed. Because of these departures, the AGM on 19th April will be something of an occasion as it will be Tony’s last meeting with the Friends and Diana’s last meeting as Committee Chair. We hope that as many members as possible will be able to attend. PETER RUSSELL - MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY ……. AND ……ONTO A NEW CHAIR ! A brief end note from outgoing Chair who’s original intention had been, after over 20 years as either Secretary or Chair, to stand back and disappear into the serried ranks of FoDP members. However, not to be quite yet ! The very good news is…… Peter Russell - our five star Membership Secretary has stepped forward and offered to take up the mantle of FoDP Chair - this ‘succession’ makes total sense and I am absolutely delighted as I believe that he will make a five star Chairman too. I know that he will stamp his own style and direction on the leadership of the Friends which is just what we need at this point in our history, and I am really pleased to stay on as Secretary (and Newsletter Editor) for a while in support of the new regime! I’m also pleased to report that Peter will continue as Membership Secretary but with additional valued assistance from Jenny. Diana Lamb Issue 64 March 2017 2 of 9 FINAL REPORT FROM OUR HEAD GARDENER TONY EWINS OF SODEXO I welcome you, with much sadness and regret, to my first news letter of 2017 which will also be my last contribution for the Friends. As mentioned in the November issue I am at that age where I can retire - sadly age catches up with us all and I feel it is time for me to hang up my gardening boots on a full time basis! Since August 2004 when I was given the privileged position of Head gardener at Dunorlan Park, I have been very fortunate to have been heavily involved in overseeing part of the Heritage Lottery grants programme of contractors’ work followed by managing, organising and overseeing the Dunorlan team to fulfil the general maintenance contract specifications, and through the management plan, the future development in many aspects of this magnificent park. Although I found it rather daunting at first, it wasn’t too long before I started to understand what was needed and with the support of my team at that time, Mike and David, everything soon fell into place. Along with the backing of TWBC, The Friends of Dunorlan Park and many volunteers, we soon found that we were going in the right direction. So now thirteen years later with several other staff coming and going and great help from so many volunteers over the years along with other groups, we have arrived at where we are today. It has been a very exciting time, and I really hope you have enjoyed this journey with us and the way Dunorlan Park has developed and improved over these years. It has been a wonderful experience that I will never forget. Dunorlan Park is still developing and will continue to do so as most gardens or parks do, life never sits still in horticulture and that is what makes it so exciting and interesting and worth all the effort. So let us look at the present and the hopeful future of the park. Well, over this winter it has been a busy time for Cliff and I and the volunteers with additional work by Kent High Weald Partnership (KHWP) and the Sodexo team - winter is supposed to be a quieter more relaxing time, I have never found it so!! So once leaf clearing was completed, it was all down to starting work on the winter pruning (although pruning does go on all year), brambling, weeding, tree planting, dividing herbaceous plants, border maintenance, clearing old growth in the top pond, re weaving the willow fence and arches in the play area and cutting brambles off the paths in the meadow, aa well as seeing the completion of various set projects by KHWP throughout all areas of the parkland. Winter and early spring has been very successful and we are on top of many areas, however, we are still mulching and continuing some border maintenance, such as weeding, edging, pruning and dividing snowdrops. There are other works coming up, such as path edging and wood staining benches and bins which we will start as soon as we can. Tree planting has nearly finished with the majority of those planted being commemorative trees planted in memory of those who have been lost and who loved Dunorlan Park - we have planted; two Monkey Puzzles, a Pecan nut, an English oak, common birch, sweet chestnut, a Strawberry tree, two Magnolia ‘Galaxy’, common beech and a flowering dogwood called Stella Pink. We have also planted a lovely delicate flowering tree called Styrak japonica at the end of the Terrace. Still to plant is a stunning cherry along with two donation trees - a Scots pine and a conker tree (Horse Chestnut), both of which will be great additions to the landscape as well as future fun for children to collect and play ‘conkers’! Hopefully conkers will not be banned in the future as it was great fun for me and other children when we were young! Although this winter has been dry quite dry with some very cold and frosty nights, I still think it has been quite mild Issue 64 March 2017 3 of 9 Tony Ewins’ Report…. continued overall, and as we approach spring with slightly more rain and mild conditions many plants are starting to perform……… At present we have splendid display of snowdrops called Elwesii (some donated by the Friends), Cyclamen coum and oriental hellebores at the Pembury entrance and chasing these along are two types of Fritillary - meleagris (Snakes head) and imperialis ( Crown imperial), both are stunning plants. There is also a new group of Fritillaria we planted here last autumn which will flower later, along with another beautiful flowering bulb (try and identify this little beauty) so watch these beds.
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