A COMMUNITY garden at Weston-super-Mare railway station has been officially opened to turn the site into a “thriving space”.

The Grow Feral Open Return Garden opening event took place on Wednesday, July 24 from 4pm to 6pm.

For the past year and a half, local community gardeners Karen and Sam from Grow Feral have transformed an overgrown scrap of land on platform 2 into a community garden space currently filled with wildflowers and vegetables.

(Image: Grow Feral)

A message on the Grow Feral website read: “The aim is to establish the garden into a thriving space and engage local communities to join regular growing and gardening sessions to benefit from being out in nature and support the ongoing development and maintenance of the garden.

“This project is supported by Severnside Rail Partnership, and Healthier with nature.”

The website also explained: “In the winter of 2022-2023, we embarked upon a new project with the vision of turning a scrap of neglected land on platform two of Weston-super-Mare train station into a community garden and growing space for staff and passengers to enjoy.

“For this initial period, we worked with women from the South West community payback scheme to clear the site and begin the journey.

“The area has a number of mature trees and shrubs already in place which we will design and develop the garden around.

“We will incorporate a combination of native wildflowers, and perennial plants, alongside growing edible plants, vegetables, and herbs for people to pick and take away with them.”