A DUSTY gravel patch under the Station Road Bridge along the railway fence in Oak Road has been beautified by an Observatory Improvement District (OBSID) public garden initiative.
The OBSID gardens, established with donations from residents and the hard work of OBSID gardener Ibrahim Chiwaya, now amount to seventeen.
The latest garden was initiated when Obs resident Anthony Wood, 69, approached the OBSID about the gravel patch opposite Cape Mental Health in Oak Street, and asked if it could be converted into a garden. The gardening enthusiast and former nursery owner provided plants and mulch. Ibrahim spent three days establishing the garden in the hard soil.
The OBSID’s approach is to propagate plant water-wise plants in its gardens so as to minimise the need for watering.
But even so, the biggest challenge with the OBSID’s gardening effort so far has been the availability of water trolley’s to cart water canisters to each garden.
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