Mill Lane Community Garden 
Mill Lane Community Garden Many people and companies have already donated items. this page will attempt to say thank you to everyone that has donated time/plants/etc. I hope I have got everyone. If not, my apologies. I also hope I have spelled names correctly (I know I am missing a few surnames). If you spot any errors or omissions please let me know.
| Who | What |
|---|---|
| Alan Brawn | Donating the enormous "Guess the weight" pumpkin (it was 4.88Kg) for our Oct '21 Open Day |
| Anonymous | We now have 3 x compost bins donated anonymously |
| Anonymous | Pots, tools, watering cans,etc, donated anonymously in Nov 2023 |
| Anonymous (apologies, I've misplaced your name) | Sacks of horse manure |
| Arnold Clark Community Fund | Award of grant in their weekly draw |
| Barbara Bigland | Push mower plus cash towards materials for the raised beds |
| Bell Young | Hanging baskets |
| Bellway | 3 x planters |
| Beverley Hardstaff & her mum | Pots |
| Berks Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust; Rough Around The Edges project (Katie Horgan) | Funding for two large trugs, some seeds and top soil Loan of a wildlife camera. Award of grant for a cold frame Funding for the purchase of a Chinnor Plum tree Grant for the purchase of two large bags of compost and lots of packets of wildflower seeds ready for next year's planting Plants from their gold medal winning garden at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival. Follow this link to read all about it Two slow worm mats |
| Caroline Bugby and family | 3 x secateurs, 2 x loppers and a hosereel |
| Caroline Hiley | Large plant pots |
| Charlotte Barrett | Collection of garden pots |
| Chilterns Landscape Partnership Chalk Cherries and Chairs | Grant to buy the arbour |
| Chinnor Allotments | Compost |
| Chinnor Beer Festival | Grant received to buy a children's picnic table for the Little Greens Garden Club |
| Chinnor Open Gardens | Donation - this will go towards the purchase a noticeboard Award of a grant which will help to pay to pay for the purchase and installation of a greenhouse |
| Chinnor Parish Council | Award of grant; used to buy some planters and 2-seater benches Award of grant for hard standing and 3-seater captain's bench Award of a grant for a cycle rack (see pic) Bench and two planters to be placed either side of the gate Our lovely new banner |
| Chinnor Turf and Paving | Multiple donations of soil and sand And for their ongoing support |
| Chinnor Women's Institute | Donation |
| Chris and Jenny Williams | Wheelbarrow, watering can, bin on wheels, and assorted tools |
| Chris Hannington | Day lillies |
| Chris McGuire | Wildflower plants |
| Christine and Ray Barnett | Brassica cage |
| Christine Davis | Red hot poker, centaurea plant and lily of the valley plants Pink fir apple seed potatoes, rainbow chard seedlings and greengage saplings plus a cash donation |
| Co-op Local Community Fund | Grant used to buy a new mower |
| Community Action Groups Oxfordshire | Grant to purchase two cold frames, a greenhouse, and some plants |
| Craig Kester | Two wheelbarrows |
| Cynthia River's husband | Bird box |
| Dan Cullam | Spearmint plants |
| David Gutteridge | Broken slabs for rubble |
| Eliz | Day lillies |
| Elizabeth Schwarz | Willow, periwinkle and forget me knots. Also zephirine droubin thornless climbing rose, alstromerias and bergenias in memory of her late mom Nancy Spratt Some alstromerias and golden rod |
| Emma and Ian | Soil |
| Enterprise Skip Hire | Soil |
| Fight Bladder Cancer, Chinnor | Pallets |
| Fiona Castellaro | Pot planted with bulbs |
| Fiona Mantle | Compost and garden feed |
| Gail, Waterperry Gardens | Choc Ice bulbs |
| Gemma Shepherd and husband | Wooden edging |
| Geoff and Margaret Denise | Plum tree |
| Gill and Brian | Grape Hyacinths and Forget Me Nots |
| Good Food Oxfordshire | Tuff tray and children's trowels and forks |
| Graham Mundy | Rolls of turf |
| Harkness Roses | 11 climbing roses and 14 bushes |
| Iris Taylor | Pots, assorted tools and a table |
| Jackie Gunn | Various plants |
| Jackie Sturt | Organic compost maker |
| Janine Adams | Cherry shrub |
| Jennifer and Claire | Water butt |
| Jennifer and Paul Dyer | 30 paving slabs |
| John and Carol Paton | Snowdrops and alstromerias |
| John Cooper | Rhubarb roots |
| John Gordon | Donation of lawn mower, hose pipes and a fork. |
| Julie, friends and family of ... | Nicki Seymour, in whose memory a cherry tree was planted |
| Julie Portnall Boyle | Horse manure |
| Karen Dewar, Kat Leach and Pat Bhattacharya | Watering cans |
| Kim Hopgood | Bergenias |
| Kim Williams | Lavertera plants and ceramic pots |
| Kirsty and Gregg | Ornamental cherry tree Prunus Triloba |
| Lee King | Straw bales |
| Local Connections | Award of funding. The Local Connections Fund, a partnership between DCMS and The National Lottery Community Fund. We will use this to purchase the raw materials for 3 large raised beds. A condition of said funding is the addition of their logo to each page on the website. Happy to oblige! |
| Lorraine and Steve Staley | Paving slabs |
| Louise Petano-Heathcote | Packets of seeds: poppy and night scented stock |
| Lucie Ponsford | Rosa Rugosas (red Japanes Rose) |
| Lucy and Harry | Delivering the Bellway planters to site |
| Lucy Jacobs | Selection of gardening tools |
| Lyn and Simon | Various plants |
| Maggie MacKenzie | 3 x duo fruit trees (apple - Bramley and Braeburn; cherry - Stella and Morello; and pear - Conference and Concorde.) |
| Maggie Naylor | Plants for garden and for the Plant and Seed Swap day. Also bundle of good quality tools including lawn edger, lopper, rake, spade, fork, etc |
| Margaret | 3 x solitary bee hotels and a compost bin |
| Margaret Hyde | Bundle of bamboo sticks and secateurs |
| Marie Stewart | Bags of slate chippings |
| Matthew Grant | 70 bare root shrubs and trees |
| Maureen Dyroff | Strawberry plants and 5 x apple trees from the '70 trees for 70 years' project. Also Liquid Amber and surrounding bench; bird boxes and feeder |
| Maureen Dyroff and Sonja Dugmore | Wildlife signs, part of the '70 trees for 70 years' project |
| Maxine Fisher | Two trays of cabbage plants |
| Megan Morgan | Top soil |
| Michael and Linda | Rose bushes |
| Michael Gill | Hedgehog box |
| Michael Witbread | Wheelbarrow |
| Mill Lane Primary School | Pallets |
| Nem and Eli | Decorating plant pots |
| Nigel Milligan | Sorting out our problematic standpipe, and many, many other labours |
| Nikki King | Paving slabs |
| Pam Coull | Peony and foxgloves Planter for pond |
| Places Called Home | Award of grant for a variety of additional seating around the garden. This is a joint IKEA Ltd and National Lottery Community Funding scheme |
| Ray and Pauline | Hardy cyclamen, bergenia and irises |
| Richard and Susan Bailey | Rubble and flint Peony plant |
| Robert Mead - Skip Hire | Soil, also skip delivery |
| Rod Thorpe | Pumpkin for carving at our Oct '21 Open Day |
| Rosie Milliard | Various tools in memory of her late mum Beryl Hopkins |
| Sharon Morgan | Plants and fruit trees |
| Sofia and Doug Rees | 2 x ornamental Japanese flagpole cherry trees |
| St Andrews C of E Primary School and C & IRB | Bunting for the fence in memory of Zoe, Phoebe, Simeon & Amelia Powell. |
| Sue Moore | Courgette plants |
| Susie Kelsey | Chive plants |
| The Conservation Volunteers | Hedging |
| Thelma and daughter | Horse manure |
| Terry Castle | Hedgehog signs |
| Tom Hoyes | Rubble and Tomatoes More tomato plants and courgettes |
| Tracy Staskevich | Trellises |
| Transition Together Seed Fund | Grant received, to be spent on tools for the Little Greens Garden Club |
| Trust for Oxfordshire's Environment (TOE) | Award of grant towards the cost of materials for the raised beds |
| Una Davis | Greengage plum tree |
| Mr and Mrs Vernon | Two fruit trees: Pear duo - Conference and Concorde; Apple duo - Bramley and Braeburn |
| Waitrose, Thame | Tomato plants |
| Wendy Fane | Box of bulbs |
| Wendy Jennings | Tomato plants |
| Will and Fiona Austin | Raspberry and gooseberry bushes |