A VOLUNTEER who helped to plant and tend Page Park’s sensory garden has been remembered with a tree planted there.
Members of John May’s family joined the Friends of Page Park to plant the wedding cake tree in the garden in March, a year after he passed away.
Friends of Page Park vice-chair Steph Purser said: “John was there more or less at the beginning of the Garden in 2005 and spent many hours tending to the plants and beds.”
The tree was donated by the head gardener of Bristol Zoo Gardens.
The friends are appealing to parents and grandparents to supervise children in the sensory garden after a number of spring flowers in the flower beds were trampled by youngsters.
Steph said: “We’re a bit disappointed that some people can’t control their children when they visit the sensory garden.
“What’s sad is the lack of respect and appreciation of all the work and effort our incredible volunteers are putting in to making the park a lovely place to visit.
“There have also been children climbing the sensory garden trees but they are not safe to climb.
“The sensory garden is also dog-free, apart from assistance dogs, because there are some visitors to the park who have a fear of dogs.”