Today was the last session before the festive break, for the hardworking members of the FOGG working party: 19th December 2024 – Friends of Glen Goyle And they send their wishes to all: Have a good Christmas and a happy New Year! Here’s a wintry […]

The end of the year is a good time to look back over a project – and certainly a lot has happened down Glen Goyle during the last twelve months. REPORTS: The summer 2024 newsletter looked at the several visitations to the Glen over the busiest months […]

Since their inception, the Friends of Glen Goyle have been very keen to make this lovely corner of Sidmouth as accessible as possible to all. Indeed, we would all like to be able to walk through the Glen without worrying about tripping over or obstacles […]

Over the years, much of the work carried out on Glen Goyle by volunteers of the FOGG working party has been cutting back overgrowth and clearing the park of dead and rotting vegetation. This has to be bagged and taken away. And by now, both […]

Ten days ago, we had some beautiful shots of autumn down the Glen from FOGG working party member John Hopkins: Glen Goyle colour – Friends of Glen Goyle On Tuesday last week, he went down the Glen again, took some more fabulous photos and sent […]

The acer, or Japanese maple, overlooking the lawn at Glen Goyle catches the eye – and yesterday, FOGG volunteer working party member John Hopkins caught the tree at its finest: “Suddenly the maple has coloured up: it had been looking very disappointing – until now.” […]

Over the last couple of months, we have seen new volunteers join the Friends of Glen Goyle working party: welcome and thank you! Not only are they happy to roll up their sleeves, but they are actually very experienced and very knowledgeable about plants, gardening […]

We have reports from the field that young ‘tower of jewels’ have been spotted: 31st October 2024 – Friends of Glen Goyle The team of volunteers making up the Thursday morning FOGG working party found these, as photographed by John Hopkins: The website ‘Plants of […]

Today’s report on what the volunteers have been up to along the Glen reports on some nice pottering: 24th October 2024 – Friends of Glen Goyle And as any gardener knows, ‘pottering’ is essential to keeping both gardener and garden happy: The joy of gardening: […]

Fabulous news from FOGG steering group and working party member John McGregor this evening: I picked this certificate up earlier at the Sidmouth in Bloom Awards Ceremony… … There is also a glowing report from the judge/assessor, with feedback concerning areas for development There was […]