A stunning morning in the park, at least by this week’s standards, saw us weed and trim flower border edges. And we found time to celebrate Stan’s 84th birthday! The place is looking great for tomorrow’s wine and cheese celebration.
Starbank Park now has a Green Flag! Bruce Robertson of Keep Scotland Beautiful presented Starbank Park’s Green Flag to Alastair Robertson and Janet McArthur yesterday in Starbank Park. There was a good turn-out on a fine sunny morning (well, until it was coffee time!), the park was looking great and we got loads of publicity from STV and the Evening News.
Friends of Starbank Park and Two Flags!
Councillor Allan Jackson, Bruce Robertson (Keep Scotland Beautiful) and Alastair Robertson (Friends of Starbank Park)
Tea and coffee in the rain
A good turn-out and a busy morning! We cleared loads of grass clippings and hedge clippings (thanks for cutting the hedge, Julie) and even found time for some weeding too. Oh! I nearly forgot, some coffee and cakes. The park is looking great!
We did a bit extra tidying in the park this morning before Thursday’s Keep Scotland Beautiful announcements. The flower borders are looking really good. The summer bedding is full of colour, the fernery is well-established and new herbaceous borders are flourishing.
We saw one of our resident frogs, a butterfly or two and some busy bees.
Britain’s largest cruise liner was moored off Newhaven this morning. It is massive! We had to cross Starbank Road to see it but we did get a good view of the launches shuttling back and forward to Newhaven while we were gardening.
Britannia seemed to overshadow Inchkeith
Launches shuttling passengers to and from Newhaven
It rained until 9.30 this morning and then started again around 12, giving us a pleasant and dry morning for our gardening session, although we did need to shelter during our post session coffee and cakes. There was a good turnout and we got through loads of work. The park is looking good. All the borders are now planted out and we’re just about keeping the weeds at bay.
We’d a good turn out on a fine morning. We did lots, and despite the weeds growing fast in the warm weather the Park’s still looking good, despite the long grass!
We’ve nearly finished planting in the last four formal borders at the top of the park and it’s a huge step forward. The park is really looking great, quite a transformation!
And the summer flowers are looking good too!
Our Midsummer Madness event went really well, despite temperatures more suited to November. Many thanks to Mia for the beautiful music, to Heather McHaffie for opening the fernery and her talk, to Lyndsey, Graham and Stan for their talks and demonstrations and to all the helpers at the stalls.
Julie and her team have almost finished planting the summer bedding. It’s looking great. Thanks Julie.
We had lots of volunteers on Wednesday and did loads of weeding. There are lots more tidy borders.
Friends of Starbank Park 