Bunnies in the Beds 2024

Our “Bunnies in the Beds” Easter Trail took place on Saturday (April 6th) for the fourth year running, it is becoming a fabulous fixture of the Garden Volunteers year. We start thinking up mad ideas in January during tea breaks, then gradually whittle them down to create an exciting but practical trail.

This year, the Bunnies went on an egg hunt with a difference! Having found all the eggs they then had to match them to their parent animal, in order to collect a prize. And by the end of the day, 175 children had achieved their goal. There were birds eggs to find of course, but also frogs, snakes, sand lizard, moths and even a dinosaurs egg!

Also on offer: Potting Up Table with free seeds, courtesy of RHS Britain in Bloom which is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. We were not expecting this to be so popular and almost ran out of seeds! So many small gardeners-in-the-making came to this event, it was lovely. If you are growing your seeds on, you can keep track how others are doing on social media on @RHS GrassRoots and #RHSBloom60.

Ruth and Barbara converted a lot of youngsters onto the benefits of growing peas, and we also had a great team on the Plant Sale table – which has “cleared the decks” to let us get ready for our big plant sale on May 18th at Charlton House & Gardens.

Our thanks to Juli for bringing in the real Bunnies for the kids to play with, and to the visit from Frilly’s cafe‘s Big Easter Bunny too.

It was great that we were able to coordinate with Frilly’s and the GLL Charlton Library’s Saturday Fun Club (10.30-11.30) and we were very grateful to have been able to borrow some small people’s tables and chairs from the Charlton Toy Library which were a huge hit for colouring-in.

Planning for next year soon, all mad ideas welcome..!