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 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.
On June 9th and again on June 11th Otley in Bloom volunteers were busy putting summer flowers in the large wooden planters around the town centre. These planters are regularly maintained and watered by OIB. One of our members was also up early with the birds going round the town doing the watering whatever planting he could.
Our hard working team have been busy planting up the large wooden planters in town supplied and managed by Instaplanta. In total they planted 20 trays of geraniums, 6 trays of petunia and 6 trays of marigolds. They have then been monitored and watered over the following days.
Otley in Bloom 