Author: JW

It was at the Vision Group for Sidmouth’s AGM that the Friends of Glen Goyle project gave their 2025 Annual Report – which is published here in full: FRIENDS OF GLEN GOYLE – ANNUAL REPORT 2025 Firstly thanks to John Hopkins, John McGregor, and Roger our treasurer, for providing […]

It’s been busy along Glen Goyle… This week’s working party session saw half a dozen volunteers from the FOGG working party making use of what was brought in by council horticultural officer Paul Fealey – 1125 bulbs [dog’s tooth violets, crocus, snowdrop, bluebell, anemone, squill, […]

This time of year is always fabulous, with colours bursting out. In particular, the Japanese maples in autumn along the Glen are always stunning. But this year the colours of autumn seem so much more intense – to the extent that these blog pages keep posting pieces […]

Back in July, the RHS judges and Sidmouth in Bloom visited the Glen – and the photos make for an impressive show. Well, last year, the RHS gave an “It’s Your Neighbourhood” Outstanding Award for the Friends of Glen Goyle. And last Saturday, at a relaxed ceremony at […]

We know ‘the seating in the Goyle is very popular and often occupied’ from comments by volunteers of the FOGG working party and from visitors and passers-by who stop to chat with the volunteers. Two years ago the FOGG project looked at benches along the Glen – and approached […]

One of the highlights of Glen Goyle is the grand Japanese acer overlooking the lawn. Here it is captured in its full autumn plumage by FOGG member John Hopkins: Indeed, it is such a spectacle that these pages have featured it every year of late, […]

There are hopes of seeing owls across the Glen as not only have owls been seen and heard even in the very centre of Sidmouth, but Glen Goyle is only a short flight from open countryside. They are certainly in the Valley, with Sidmouth’s Donkey […]

A month ago, it was beginning to look autumnal along the Glen with a distinct change in mood and mistiness, with a dusting of autumnal hues. Now things are in full swing, with this report from today’s session by the working party from volunteer member John Hopkins: […]

The weather seems to have turned, along Glen Goyle too… Here are some photos sent in by FOGG working party member Phil Lee from yesterday morning’s session, carried out between showers. As he says, it’s looking ‘somewhat autumnal’… ‘So many different colours in the tree […]

At a time of year when there is no news, there are actually things to report back on when it comes to what’s been happening along Glen Goyle. GARDENING, GARDENING The volunteers of the FOGG working party have not been taking much of a break, […]