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Hallowe’en at Starbank

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Last weekend, we celebrated Hallowe’en at Starbank Park with a pumpkin trail and face painting for children and hot drinks and treats for everyone. It was lovely to see the park so busy and everyone enjoying Starbank on this Hallowe’en morning.

Of course our group of Saturday morning gardening volunteers were far from idle and continued with the many jobs any garden offers in autumn. Leaves were swept, weeds were weeded and spring bulbs were planted.

More autumn flowers

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The park looks beautiful this time of year, with the last flowers competing with elegant seedheads and lovely, tall grasses. It all comes together in this bed in particular:

It’s a great example of how the volunteers use what is already growing in the garden. The Gaura whirling butterflies you can see in these pictures were all taken from on big, plant growing by the house. In a few years they might get just as big.

The mother plant, from which the smaller ones above were taken