UPDATE (24-11-2009)
In order to reach our target of 10,000, we are still on the look out for:
400 bluebells
900 wood anemone
550 daffodils
850 tulips.
If you can help in any way no matter how small please get in touch.
UPDATE (03-09-2009 MG)
Just an update on the current bulb count, we are looking now for…
600 Mixed Daffodils
930 Mixed Tulips
950 Snakeshead Fritillaries
800 Mixed Crocuses
1000 English Bluebells (native only please)
1000 Native Wood Anenone OR 1000 Anemone White Splendour
Just 5280 bulbs to go!
UPDATE (MG12-08-2009)
Our shopping list for bulbs now looks like this:
1000 Mixed Daffodils
980 Mixed Tulips
1000 Snakeshead Fritillaries
990 Snowdrops
800 Mixed Crocuses
1000 English Bluebells (Native Bluebells only please)
1000 Native Wood Anenome
UPDATE (MG 03-08-2009): £745.05 to go
UPDATE (CW): At the last minute we have recived payment for our talk at the CCA which now leaves us with only £765.05 to go.
With summer slipping by rapidly- yes it really is July not a mass calender based prank- our thoughts have turned towards the coming year. So now that you’re all depressed allow us to cheer you up by introducing the Ten Thousand Bulb challenge.
Those of you who’ve visited our site at Townhead will be aware it’s a fair old size so in order to get it looking really good for next spring we need bulbs and lots of them. We are aiming to attract sufficient donations in either cash or bulbs to let us blanket our Townhead and Wilson Street sites in thousands of blooms.
Between now and December 31st 2009 we hope to obtain and plant a whopping ten thousand bulbs and will be frenziedly panhandling for the next few months. If you’d like to help out you can either use the paypal button on this page to make a donation, bring a bag of bulbs along to a dig or contact us to arrange to send bulbs to one of the troops. A no cost donation can also be made simply by visiting our Squidoo page as we earn royalties from traffic, sign ups and purchases made from the page. If you have a blog we’d be delighted if you would spare the time to write a short post about the challenge to encourage as many folk as possible to get involved.
If you have a business or website you’d like to promote we’ll be happy to write a short post highlighting your donation and add a link to our sidebar in return. We do get the occasional bit of press interest and this site attracts a good amount of traffic so it’s an excellent way to advertise cheaply whilst helping us out. We are also quite happy for you to publicise your donation and may be open to participating in any susequent publicity as long as we’re not asked to tell fibs, dance, dress up or sing.
Our bulb wishlist is below and we’ll keep you updated over the next few months as to how we’re getting on meeting our target and of course let you see the results once the bulbs bloom next year.
1000 Mixed Daffodils
1000 Mixed Tulips
1000 Snakeshead Fritillary
1000 Snowdrops
1000 Mixed Crocuses
1000 Bluebells (native only please)
1000 Grape Hyacinths
1000 Winter Aconites
1000 Mixed Alluims
1000 Wood Anenome
We’ve selected the above for their ability to naturalise, visual impact and beneficial affect to wildlife apart from tulips who’re there to look nice and little else. Successfully naturalised daffodil fields have been known to last for up to fifty years which means if we meet our target our sites will be in bloom for years to come.
We’ll be planting our first donated bulbs up at Townhead on 30th August at 11:30am if anyone fancies joining us with a bag of bulbs from the above list.
What Your Cash Donations Can Buy
10p buys a single bulb
£1 buys ten bulbs
£10 buys one hundred bulbs
£100 buys one thousand bulbs
£955 buys the full ten thousand
If you would like to help out you can donate cash via paypal or donate bulbs at our big bulb planting events at the end of August (if you would like to donate bulbs without attending please email us to arrange collection/delivery). You can even help without putting your hand in your pocket by visiting our Squidoo site and using the Amazon and eBay links to make purchases on these sites which will earn us a small commission.
If you work for or run a business and are interested in sponsoring the challenge, please get in touch with us to dicuss how your support can help both us and your business.
