The stunning newly installed recycled Dry Waterfall Rockery, next to the viewing/picnic area is enhancing the reflective space overlooking the ongoing green centre transformation being undertaken at Rowlands Dell NHS health and wellness woodland (next to the Westway Medical Centre). The rockery is part of several features representing one of Maghull’s largest green grant investments gratefully obtained by FOMD’s NHS partner.

Background.

This beautiful haven for wildlife has unbelievably been treated as an open tip for decades, where every inch has revealed a variety of pollutants harmful to wildlife. In our three-stage plan, stage I has resulted in Maghull’s biggest ever 46-week cleanup in which FOMD have removed 266 bin bags of litter and 25 tons of debris. In the two months of Stage II, that was completed this month, with our NHS landowner partners (expertly installed by subcontractors – PR England Landscapers) using a health and wellness grant fund (representing Maghull’s largest green investment) have installed an amazing legacy array of hard landscaping installations to provide accessibility for the whole community. We are now engaging in stage three to repopulate Rowlands Dell with woodland planting and need your help.

Thank you to:

  • Frank’s family who donated their late parents Lakeland rockery that was a beautiful pond feature in their childhood garden.
  • Frank’s neighbour Rose for putting up with the rockery storage behind her house for a year
  • Alan Frost who transported the rocks with his grabber.
  • Richard England (PR England landscapers) who expertly installed the rockery.
  • The NHS landowner’s who are intending to insert an artificial cascading stream in the next few weeks.
  • Due to the exhausted NHS grant funding, we are enormously grateful to the 50 community plant donations that we transported from the holding area into the rockery with a few finer plants to be purchased later.
  • The volunteers who kindly and cheerfully planted the donated plants over the last two weeks (26.11.24 & 7.12.24): Jill, Ros, Graham (pictured) with Sarah and Tom (Saxon Tree Services, who cut back the final hedge and ground ivy) and Colin, Christine and Frank (not pictured).

Join Our Massive tree planting program in Maghull early in the new year. Please register your interest by emailing admin@fomd.co.uk with your contact details and we will be delighted to get back to you to offer you some dates for our community tree planting program.

More information at www.fomd.co.uk including: (1) Events tab for everything about the meeting and (2) Projects tab for the project background.

Pictures: Before and After.

Merry Christmas,

FOMD

Together Making Maghull a better place to live.

More information. www.fomd.co.uk

Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk

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