EVENT DAY: Preparing the space

What a perfect day for my event - 20 degrees and clear blue sky! It would not be difficult to convince people to take part later because it seemed everyone was outside for most of the day enjoying the sunshine.
For the last four weeks I had been peparing doe this and now it was finally upon me.
Of course, the main worry for anyone planning an event outside in March is the more-than-likely possibility of rain. I could have worked as hard as I wanted, prepared everything to perfection but if the heavens opened, the event would be a flop - literally. No one would want to come outside and I could forget having a publically engaged installation/event. Luck was shining down on me that day thank goodness, and I felt really positive. Everything I had set out to achieve, I had done, and that was a great feeling.

The Metgros had been soaking in water all night in order to loosen the seeds from the newspaper. I had a horrible feeling that I would arrive on my event day and find that they had turned into seed-newspaper mush (flashbacks to trying to make the seed paper myself!) (See

'So, seed infused paper you say' post,) but as the paper was so heavy, the pages were still in one piece. The Glue binded spines had losened too which was rather sad as I had spent 2 days working on that... but I needed to stop worrying. In a few hours, these Metros would become the basis of my 'Let's Grow The Metro' event and would soon be torn up and covered in soil.
Preparing for the event during the day was straight forward. I had experimented with where to put the plant pots (See: 'Plantpot Takeover' May 5th post) and had organised for a trestle table to stand in front of the greenhouse on the lawn to act as a stall for people to use when tearing the newspapers up and planting them. The greenhouse had not blown away and the lovely gardener had given me two huge bags of compost to use! All I had to do was set everything up and wait for 6pm!
Here are some images of the preparation for the evening's event.