The Gardening Group has visited Jericho at the invitation of member Joanna Donkin to see the achievements of the ‘Greening Jericho’ community project. The terrace houses in Jericho were built in Victorian times for workers in the canal-side factories. There are no front gardens but the terraces, and more recent re-builds, have left a series of small spaces, corners and lanes. In an imaginative initiative a group of local volunteers, including Joanna, are transforming these into little oases of greenery, planting shrubs and flowers donated by Oxford City, local residents and some of our members. In 2021 their “greening up” of a small canal-side plot was given a well-deserved award by Oxford Preservation Trust.