Last Saturday while hundreds of kids and parents visited Shirley Macey Park for soccer activities there was a quieter grass roots movement happening.
Twenty volunteers from the Gibsons Garden Club advanced on the overgrown maze and transformed the space to once again be an inviting safe space for kids and others to explore pathways, create sounds on the xylophone, sit on stone bugs and turtles and enjoy the magic of the space.
The maze was opened in 2010 with community leadership from volunteers Sheila Cameron and Larissa Hsia-Wilcock.
It's designed to be all indigenous and edible plants and complement the playground and frog pond, said Mark Cameron who lent a hand along with Rick Wray, a Kinsman Club member to the Saturday work party.
The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) is a leading partner in providing gravel, mulch, top soil and the much needed wheel barrows, not to mention the piles of weeds and unwanted grass and blackberry branches that will 'disappear' with SCRD staff involvement.
The Gibsons Garden Club is busy at this time of year getting ready for its large and popular plant sale next Saturday, April 27 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Gibsons and Area Community Centre.
There will be many potting up gatherings, lots of digging and plant splitting in preparation to help the community beautify their gardens. It is a hugely anticipated event that also provides expert advice on plant selection and care, a bake sale table, and garden items including succulents in driftwood, wooden trellises, and new this year, 'garden glassics' all created by garden club members.
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