The Rovsco Hall Primroses

And what happened to those Beached Whales? I’m talking of course about the EFOG scout hut (ROVSCO Hall) primroses. Well what a project that was! There must have been hundreds of them. At our first working party in April, we shifted a whole load of them on to the bank where the horse chestnut trees are against the fence. They settled in very happily there and hopefully are out of harm’s way re builders.

I had lots of other primrose digging sessions with different people. Even after the jumbo bags of jumbos had been dumped on primrose patches, I was able to retrieve them when that bit had been de-jumboed. Well here’s where they all went: Loads to Efog members’ gardens. To Ken and Clive’s church gardens. To Copped Hall and to Cody Dock. To Tarzy Wood in Wanstead. To the Corner House garden in Wanstead, and new patches I’m developing with the Wanstead Community Gardening group all around the station area. In the end, before the bulldozers moved in, I couldn’t see a single primrose plant still lurking. I’m pretty sure we more or less got the lot.

The new scout hut is going up now and it looks HUGE. What remains of the garden looks like World War 1 trenches. No chance of any of the primroses surviving had we left them there. When it’s all over and done, the new hut built, I would like to move the bank primroses back to where they are visible to passers-by through the metal gates. Hope this will be possible because they were a delight to local people. Many thanks to all who helped. It was a brilliant project. 

Marian. 27th May 2015