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Remember all them bulbs You planted?
Late last year we had our 10,000 bulb challenge. Earlier in spring we had hundreds of daffodils, snowdrops and crocus flowering away. Right now, it is the turn of the Tulips to flower. It is a wonderful splash of colour. A big thank you again if you were involved in any way with the bulb planting.
3rd march – Urgent Help Wanted (Townhead site)
| March 3, 2010 | ||
| 5:30 pm | to | 6:30 pm |
A Big Push to End the Year on a High!
Let’s start off with a massive thank-you to all who braved the hellish weather at the weekend to get some more bulbs planted. Despite the low turnout and my abduction by the press an impressive amount of work was done with hundreds more bulbs planted.
Next week we’ll be back to our usual time of 11:30am up at Townhead and as ever there’s loads to do. This week should see the winter aconites and the last of the grape hyacinths planted. In addition I’ve been given a bag of daffodils and post permitting should have 1000 snowdrops, 50 wood anemone and 100 English Bluebells to add to the display.
We’ve done well to raise the funds we have but sadly we’re still short of our 10,000 target by some way. The council were in touch recently and made positive noises about helping us out with some tulips and daffodils which should hopefully see us reach our individual targets on those flowers. However we still urgently require 900 English Bluebells, 950 Wood Anemone and 300 Snakeshead Fritallaries. If the council let us down then we’re also still short by 600 mixed daffodils and 900 tulips. A total shortfall of around 3650 bulbs.
If you would like to donate to our funds then please do so via paypal. If you’d prefer to bring some bulbs along then we’ll be accepting donations of bulbs at Townhead if you’d like to come along and drop them off. We’ve only got until 31st December to meet our target and have done well despite some recent setbacks. It would be a shame to come this far and fall short so if you have any spare cash or bulbs we really would be very grateful for your donations.
We’ll be up at Townhead on Saturday 21st Nov at 11:30am, Saturday 28th November at 11:30am, December 5th 11:30am, December 12th 11:30am, December 19th 11:30am and Wednesday 30th December at 12pm. If you’d like to come along to any of these events with some bulbs of the still needed varieties, some gloves and trowel or bulb planter you’ll be more than welcome.
17th October – Townhead
| October 17, 2009 | ||
| 11:30 am | to | 12:30 pm |
| 11:30 am | to | 12:30 pm |
Just south of the A on this map, on the path that links parson Street to Stirling Road.
3rd October – Townhead
| October 3, 2009 | ||
| 11:30 am | to | 12:30 pm |
Date: Saturday 3rd October
Time: 11:30 am
Just south of the A on this map, on the path that links parson Street to Stirling Road.
10,000 Bulb update
Due to various donations, fund-raising and help from various members of the Gardening group.
We are now on the lookout for the following:
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!
This is an amazing result as most of the fund-raising has been done by our core members. If you can help out with this second half of fund raising or even the bulb planting over the coming months, please get in touch.
Thanks