In 2018 FOMD rallied community support to transform a neglected and rundown patch of tarmacked land into a cherished wildflower oasis. In 2021, the area needed to be refreshed due to weeds and grass overwhelming the wildflowers. Consequently, we successfully crowd funded £500 to introduce more features to enable it to be more self-sustainable.

Stage One:

Prior to 2018, the land was used for fly tipping and was regularly dumped with bin bags, debris, unwanted furniture and blighted with ASB. The local community all pulled together by:

• Winning a wildflower seed donation from Kew Gardens
• Received invaluable free donations from Ashworth Hospital in the form of logs, grass seeds and volunteering time to landscape.
• Nearby residents Michael McIndoe and Martin Monaghan gave the topsoil,
• Sandy Lane Nursery provided the wood chippings,
• Sefton Council gave the trees,
• Riverside Housing Association gave a planter and extra wildflower seeds.

Media: The Full Story Reported in the Champion Newspaper: https://www.champnews.com/papers/pdf/M2719.pdf#page=7

Stage Two:

In 2021 we needed to refresh the area, as the grass and weeds had overwhelmed the wildflowers, so we crowd funded £500 (https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/parkbourn) and received further in-kind donations to introduce:

• On the outside border – shrubs, blue bells & daffodils, hydrangeas, a dogwood hedge, a stumpery, weed suppressant bark, 30 bird boxes and bug houses (including novel teapots!) hanging from the fencing.
• In the middle triangle, which has several inches of topsoil covering the tarmac we reintroduce an abundance of wildflowers with a large dose of yellow rattle wildflowers which are notorious for reducing invasive grass, with a huge bug hotel centrepiece made from donated materials and constructed by local children and Scouts.

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