Teddies Coming Home!
With the completion of this year’s Teddy Bear Trail, all the teddies are returning to their homes. Bad Mood Bear is taking time out to catch up with his reading.
Glorious Gardens Awards
Glorious Gardens Awards.
Once again the Glorious Gardens competition brought to attention some wonderful Jesmond gardens. These were the award winners:
Small garden: 16 Northumberland Gardens. This small space is densely filled with a range of very unusual plants, with dramatic use of strong, dark colours. The bright touches of red and yellow provide a colourful lift. In addition there are some lovely features around the front door, including solar lights woven into shrubs, and a small tree.
Large Garden: 16 Tankerville Terrace. This garden was a pleasing mixture of flowering pots and borders, containing perennials and bedding plants surrounding a little lawn. There was a row of pots lining the path leading to the front door. All the plants were in bloom and it was delightfully colourful. Two Buddha statues added a touch of serenity.
Wildlife friendly: 25 Holly Avenue. This is a long front garden, with a huge mature lime tree on its front boundary. The tree has had its crown lifted to allow light in, and the area beneath is cultivated as a woodland garden with many wildflowers and a woodpile. A small lawn includes an area of long grass and a table feeder, and there are also bird feeders and a bird bath. The whole area is densely planted, including use of the fence between neighbours. The garden adjoins many similar front gardens and provides as much as possible for wildlife, while creating a colourful space.
Single Container: 61 Grosvenor Gardens. A very attractive pot with lovely contrast between white and purple flowers against darker foliage. Simple but effective and works well in the context of sparkling pebbles.
2021 Festival Drawing to a Close
The Teddy Bear Trails stay in place until 6 June, and you can enter for the Photographic Competition until 25 September, but most 2021 Jesmond Community Festival events have now come to an end. Keep an eye out for the results of the final festival competitions, and give us your comments on any of this year’s events by emailing info@jesmondfestival.org.uk . Or, use the same email address to let us have your ideas for next year!
NUJO
The Newcastle University Jazz Orchestra were unable to give their annual Festival performance in Jesmond Library this year, so instead they have recorded this version of Chick Corea’s “Spain” for us. Their technical achievement during lockdown is astounding, quite apart from their musical talents!
The YouTube link is: https://youtu.be/NdbgG7b8ylc
Where in Jesmond?
FRIENDS OF ST. GEORGE’S PICTURE QUIZ OF JESMOND
Log on to the web site of the Friends of St. George’s and you will find 20 images of places in Jesmond.
See if you can identify them and then check the answers which will be posted on FOSG web site at the end of the Jesmond Festival.
There is no prize. It is just your personal challenge and your personal result.
Good luck!
Alternative Route for Teddies
This year’s Teddy Bear Trail includes two options. This is the Red Trail, which passes Reid Park Road, Holly Avenue and Highbury, starting and finishing at Jesmond Library, where more information is displayed.