A Dundee parent has been left feeling “overwhelmed” with support after leading the transformation of a community garden.
Helena Woodcock, a parent at Blackness Primary, spent every spare moment for around a month on the “feelgood” project near the primary school.
Private gardener Helena said she approached the school to fix the garden after social distancing meant many people had been using the area as space to queue up.
She said: “The garden was maintained and managed by some of the residents in the nearby sheltered housing.
“But then came Covid and people just were struggling for places to line up. So the garden ended up as a lining up space and every one trod everything to the ground.
“It started to become a really horrible looking space. But it was a beautiful space that made me think, gardening has always been allowed during Covid times, and I love it so thought maybe we could do something with it.
“I asked Councillor Fraser MacPherson to find out who it belonged to and it…
