The gardening group planted a range of perennial and annual plants in the rose bed today. These are possibly not going to live in the rose bed for the rest of their lives as they may outgrow the area. However, when that happens we will transplant them to another area in the park. We have planted: Rudbekia 'goldstrum', shasta...
After a long wait, we installed two benches today. The benches have been donated by two very kind members of the community - Mrs S Anderson and Mrs R Sweeney. We are very grateful for them and they make a fabulous addition to a park. Hopefully they will be well used (but not abused!).
We are keen to increase the biodiversity of the park by increasing the number of flowering species on site. To help with this, we are creating a wildflower meadow in the back corner of the park. We left it uncut at the beginning of May, dropped some bee bombs and scattered a small amount of wildflower seeds. Wildflowers don't...
We bought 50 'in the green' snowdrops for the centre of the rose bed. They are past flowering but planting at this stage is the best way for them to establish. Next spring we should hopefully have a lovely display of pretty snowdrops. More plants will be coming soon.
We were recently awarded a grant of £4,000 from the Scotland Loves Local Fund and £500 from Cambuslang Community Council from the Renewable Energy Fund Micro Grants Scheme for the purpose of reinstating the rose bed in the park. This week we have the lovely fellas at Glasgow Garden Maintenance at the park installing the surrounding block border....
Today (6th March) we also managed to do some planting. We were very kindly donated some dwarf fruit trees from a local resident which we have placed near the noticeboard and near where a bench is due to be located (check back for further updates!). They should only grow to around 6 or 8 feet maximum and so...
We were awarded a grant of £200 from Cambuslang Community Council Renewable Energy Fund Micro Grants Scheme back in 2019. We had many delays with approvals, Covid-19 and then weather (repeatedly!). However, we are now pleased to confirm that the noticeboard went in today! The noticeboard will be fantastic for keeping the local community informed...
