Breadcrumb Trail
Tree guide for Sale park
Youngsters who visit Worthington Park, in Sale, will soon know more about the trees they see.
The Friends of Worthington Park are using part of a £3210 grant from Greening Greater Manchester to create an information pack for local schools.
The group's chair, Ruth Fletcher, told Trafford Today: "This is really a good time for us because the park is looking beautiful and we're getting more and more people visiting.
"In the future we want to encourage schools to come here on nature days with their classes. We'd really like to see them become more interested in the outdoors because there is plenty for them to see, enjoy, and learn about the park."
Worthington Park has around 20,000 daffodils all planted by the Friends group with help from plenty of volunteers.
Over the past few weeks, local residents have also shown their support by donating bluebells from their own gardens to help boost the wildflower garden at the park which now has more than 300 wildflower plants.
Trafford Council's parks and development team has been working with different Friends of Parks groups to develop projects, which include a snail labyrinth at Worthington Park, and a garden of tranquillity in Stretford, working with residents of a nearby sheltered housing scheme.
The labyrinth is being redesigned and will be marked out at ground level, next to a bench carved out of a tree with snails carved on each end of it. There will also be a notice board close to the labyrinth naming the different species of snails found in Worthington Park.
Also, chainsaw carver Tim Burgess, who recently carved the figure of a wizard holding an owl out of a dead tree stump, is planning to return to Worthington - to carve a six-foot red squirrel.
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