Nature-lovers are invited to celebrate Blossom Watch Day (23 April) at the Heroes Commemorative Orchard in Grantham.
Wyndham Park volunteers and South Kesteven District Council staff will be on hand from 10am to 2pm to welcome visitors, offer activity sheets to children and explain wartime milestones that prompted the creation of the three-acre orchard.
The orchard, next to Wyndham Park, was planted in 2020 before the first pandemic lockdown, and is home to 70-plus cherry, apple, pear and plum trees commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of WWll.
Cllr Rosemary Trollope-Bellew, SKDC Cabinet Member for Culture and Visitor Economy, said: “The sight of early blossom is always a welcome one and is sure to cheer us all up.
“Please bring your children, your cameras and even your painting easels and enjoy these beautiful blossoms as spring gets under way and our orchard matures.”
Blossom Watch Day was launched as an annual celebration by the National Trust, which owns the three-acre orchard that is now leased by SKDC.
Pictures of blossom can be recorded on social media using the hashtag #Blossomwatch. The orchard has information boards tracing local wartime heritage linked to First Airborne Division and the United States Army Air Force.
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