I try hard to be positive about the park. There are so many good things to report and so many kind people working together to build community life. But I thought you should hear about our recent problems in the orchard. We have cultivated the park now for more than seven years with scarcely any problems of an antisocial nature, but sadly we have to report that this weekend we lost several new plants to theft.
A Cherry tree planted in the autumn has been lifted away leaving this sorry looking hole.
And a bed, planted last Saturday with Green Alder, Red grapes, purple chokeberry and Great Mullein is now bare.
If anyone saw anything that might be related to this theft, we would very much like to hear. The small team of us who work on the orchard obviously find this sort of thing disheartening, but I am sure we will want to stand up and ‘defy’ this behaviour and continue to try to make the orchard a beautiful and fruitful space for everyone to enjoy.
Friends of Emersons Green Park 
Hi Chris,
Unfortunately it is a sad reflection of the times that we live in. Mercifully it is just a minority that choose to act in this way. Very sad, after the money you must have spent, and/or the precious time you spent in nurturing them. Had it been vandals, I suspect the young plants would have been scattered in the immediate vicinity. This then leads to my view that it must have been someone who has taken them for their own “consumption” ?. which is even sadder!! Regards, Neville
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So sorry to read about this, Chris. Have you reported this to the police? Unfortunately, the closest CCTV post is on the pathway to the library and right now the camera that was put there for a short time has been relocated to another area in South Gloucestershire. This is disheartening.
I am appalled to think someone has done this as these fruits benefit all our local community.i personally get such pleasure in watching them grow and mature.
On a slightly different note I have had reports of a pair of green parakeets being seen in the park has any one seen them and what are they feeding on ?