FIFTEEN Petersfield Rugby Club players gave up a Sunday to help clear an overgrown garden for an elderly woman.

The crew strimmed the overgrown garden of a wheelchair-bound pensioner who also lived in Vinson Road, Liss. In return for their efforts, a donation of £1,500 from landscape and tree surgeon company DG Green Works was made to the club to help cover the cost of the players’ club membership.

During the clear up day the team filled the equivalent of a big skip with rubbish buried under the head-high brambles, cleaned out a garage full of rotting and mouldering items, cleared the garden of brambles, weeds and long grass, trimmed a hedge, cut back an apple tree, cleared gutters and downpipes, laid a slab path and discovered a lost path and returned it to use. The woman, who over the years had filled her garden and garage with hoarded items, and her neighbour, are tenants of Radian Housing Association.

Susi Drummond, of Radian, said: “I just wanted to say a huge thank you to all the lads for all their hard work.

“We achieved miracles with the garden and looking at the before and after photographs it shows just how hard they worked. The tenant was very grateful and thanked everyone involved.”