Tonight as part of Otley Walking Festival, our Yorkshire in Bloom Coordinator led the Otley in Bloom walk ‘In the Judges Footsteps’, ably assisted by other members of the team. There were 12 non Otley in Bloom participants who were also joined by Doris the dog. The walk took about 2hrs and was a great success with excellent weather, a beautiful sunset and everyone said they enjoyed it. We also had two people expressed an interest in helping Otley in Bloom so fingers crossed.
One of our members spent a sunny afternoon adding some new plants to the Nectar Bed in Wharfefmeadows Park. The plants were ordered earlier in the year but had just arrived this week. The Nectar bed was given a good tidy-up and water as well and our member was pleased to receive several very positive comments from passers-by.
A few of our members were out tonight tidying up the Leeds and Pool Road gateways. They also gave the grasses in the Manor Square barrier planters a haircut. Moving on through town they cut down and sprayed the weeds in the car park at the bottom of Burras Lane, opposite the church, and watered the planters outside the parish church which were newly planted up and in need of water.
A couple of members of the group have again been back to the Whartons School where through recent talks with the school and Friends of the Earth it was decided that they would like to create two wildflower meadows within the school grounds. Over the past few months a plan was drawn up, seeds aquired and the land prepared. Finally today some of the children from the school enjoyed a sunny session of sowing the seeds and stamping the ground to settle them in assisted by our members. Otley in Bloom shared the costs of the groundworks with the school PTA and will continue to monitor the site.
Three of our members spent a lovely sunny morning at our allotment planting on the spring flowers salvaged from the town’s barrier planters. This was done earlier in the month as these planters were being re-planted by Leeds City Council Parks department on behalf of Otley in Bloom with their summer flowers and plants. This is a big part of our recycling policy ensuring that we save as many plants as possible to re-use them at a later date somewhere in the town.
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