An enormous thank you to the local Dowhigh Construction who have donated £500, outside our ‘Just Giving’ platform, towards our current crowdfunding to replenish the border planting. We have now raised £1,205 of our £3-5000 October target to buy woodland themed shrubs, bulbs and wildflowers, at www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/woodend. We hope to announce another £300 donation soon.
Dowhigh have been subcontracted by Sefton Highways Department and have been doing an amazing job resurfacing and reconfiguring the drainage on Park Lane in Maghull, which had previously been considered one of the worst roads in Merseyside, with two years of dangerous potholes and 20 years of insidious flooding.
July Overview: The huge rear border which is now this year’s focus in terms of crowdfunding and over 200 woodland themed plant donations, which has been evolving through the seasons. It lost the spring colour of the snowdrops, bluebells, azaleas and rhododendrons, cherry and crab apple blossom, being replaced by lush green leafy plants eg. various evergreens, ferns and some ground elder, nettles, cow parsley. Some of the other plant donations have provided some splashes of colour including white margarita and orange lilies. Whilst this week we planted 64 dwarf sunflowers in groups of five, the seeds were donated by Morrisons as part of their ‘Seeds of Hope’ Campaign and have been grown on by FOMD.
Most of the work this month has involved weeding, watering the new evergreen trees on a daily basis, removing some of the bark chippings between the rear path and the rockery border perimeter and grass seeding it for easier future maintenance.
More Trees! Following last year’s incredible planting of 9000 trees in Maghull, we have been working towards planting further trees and hope to plant at least 100 standard trees and several thousand hedge tree whips, which may involve planting them in the perimeter of at two local primary schools.
In the meantime, the MTC Park Rangers have been undertaking an amazingly patient/diligent job regularly cutting around the thousands of March planted tree whips in the four fenced areas in Hall Lane and Pimbley Field parks. On a weekly basis FOMD have been repairing and replacing canes and spirals caused by accidents, minor tampering, and removing any competitive weeds.
This month, we hope to make a minor repair to the new path and create some log seating, depending on our friends workload.
Pictured: Some of Morrisons donated ‘Seeds of Hope’ Grown on plants, clustered in groups of five along the whole border path.