The Wednesday gardening Session is on at the usual time, 10 -11.30. Please come if you can as there’s lots to do.
Wednesday Gardening Session, 28 October, 10-11.30
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People’s Choice Awards: Starbank Park third in Scotland!
Starbank Park came third out of the all Scottish entrants in our first attempt in the Green Flag Awards People’s Choice poll of Britain’s best open spaces. This is great news for a small community park and reflects the huge efforts to restore the park from the Friends and the City of Edinburgh Council’s Ritchie Fraser, Jen Johnstone and Julie Milne (and her team).
Strathaven Park was placed highest placed Scottish Park and in the UK top twenty. Rouken Glen in East Renfrewshire was second.
Full details are on the Keep Scotland Beautiful Website, http://www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/local-environmental-quality/green-flag-award/news/scottish-peoples-choice-parks-announced/
Flowers and Fungi
A good morning at the park yesterday, it was fair, warm and breezy, perfect for gardening. We’ve planted many more daffodils, weeded and tidied and the place is looking good. There are loads of flowers still flowering and plenty fungi too.
TCV at the Park again!
Super day at the park. TCV came again to Starbank today. They dug over empty bedding borders, spread compost, weeded and did a marvellous job again! Many thanks to Tim and all his team for their help. They have made a big difference.
The park was looking good in the sunshine, with loads of colour and a few toadstools.
Views from the park
Another fine autumn day, with plenty activity on the Forth. The marker buoys for the cruise liners’ launches have been lifted. Winter must just be round the corner.
Autumn colours
Another glorious autumn morning
A glorious morning with loads going on in the park, weeding, digging, pruning, tidying and coffee! A surprising number of plants are still flowering and the park is looking good!
Fifth best park in Edinburgh
It’s official! We’re amongst the top 10 of Edinburgh Parks! Edinburgh Council’s latest park quality survey results are out and we’re fifth equal and the second most improved park in Edinburgh. Well done to all the volunteers, Julie and her team and Jen and Ritchie.
A big visit and damp gardening
Victoria Primary’s P2 classes visited the park this morning (with teachers). It’s the first step towards the Friends and the School working together to build a children’s nature trail beside the Laverockbank Road entrance. Very exciting!
It was a pretty dull and damp morning but there’s still lots of colour in the park. We even found time for some gardening before the rain came at 11.30, trimming the lavender bushes, preparing a boat planter for replanting and lots of tidying.
