Diana - Brave Brambles Banisher!
Meet Diana who joined the Highbury Quadrant Nature Gardening Group with her partner Konstantin to help transform unused and un-useable plots of land on Highbury Quadrant Estate, bringing into a rich environment where food is grown, and biodiversity is encouraged. They are committed-in-all-weathers gardening group members who slogged it out in wind, rain, sun, to battle the soil and completely renovate and renew the land. As we cut back, cleared and explored the growing spaces our team of gardeners shared ideas and bounced thoughts about as to what each space could become and how.
Diana is and has been a fab critical friend in the thinking process of how the gardens will work to best community use and what the aims are. She brings a joy and light with her as she is such a lovely kind caring person. She doesn't claim to have lots of gardening knowledge but she has more than she thinks and is really engaged with climate action concepts. She is thorough and detailed in her work ethic. Her core job is advocacy for young people.
Diana was a main player in digging the tree holes, mulching and weeding and renovating the soil so we could plant in The Orchard, where this photo was taken. This meant a massive amount of work digging out vast bramble roots, hence the photo of her delight in finally getting out what was an annoyingly awkward piece of organic matter!