With lots of effort and loads of ferns, we pretty well finished our Fernery yesterday. Not too much to see yet but we have high hopes for the summer. Many thanks to Keep Scotland Beautiful and Tesco for the Community Grant, all who helped and to Heather McHaffie, Kevock Garden and Bowdens who all donated ferns.
A glorious morning, with the Forth like a millpond, again!!
We’ve made more progress with the fernery; special thanks to David and Stella of Kevock Garden (http://www.kevockgarden.co.uk) for donating ferns and logs.
The garden is looking good, despite the weeds enjoying the weather. The primulas are amazing all over the park, the star and crescents are improving now we’ve blocked the gaps in the hedge and the daffodils on the bank at the east wall are pretty good too.
It was a glorious Easter Sunday today and hundreds of families came along for the traditional Easter Egg rolling at Starbank Park, with picnics lasting well into the afternoon. 
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The rain stopped at 9.30 this morning and started again at 11.45 but, in between, we had a perfect morning for our Easter Egg Hunt. We had a wonderful turn-out with over 200 parents and children. We thought we had far too many Easter eggs and bunnies but almost all were claimed in an hour. Lots of cups of tea and coffee were served and the children planted loads of sunflower seeds in take-away pots. Many thanks to all our helpers and to Asda, Tesco and Waitrose (in alphabetical order) for donations. And a huge special thanks to Janet (with the pink ears) for organising the event so brilliantly.
The first activity of the morning was to investigate a hyacinth bulb that was coming out of the ground, upside down. We were slightly surprised to find well-formed leaves and a flower 25cm into the ground. The leaves had clearly not been exposed to light. Most odd!
While weeding was the main order of the day, we used our own compost, emptying a bin. Most has gone into the sunken area near the Laverockbank Road gate. It’s now almost level with the surrounding borders.
The plants in the park seem to be ignoring the temperature and flowering with gusto.
Another magnificent day. We finished off blocking the main gaps in the hedges, did a chunk of tidying on the terrace and planted some cuttings. Not bad for a day off!
The hedge should fill the gaps without the need for more plants but the cuttings are a good insurance.
I can’t resist inserting another photo of the primulas which are amazing.
And I can’t resist a bad joke.
Digging up the muck in Newhaven
Great morning at the park, sunny, warm and no wind! Spring is bursting forth with lots more daffodils out, a magnificent show of primulas and the witch hazels adding colour too. We’ve dug over the east border and it’s looking good.
There has been a lot of damage to the star this winter and we are blocking up the gaps in the terrace hedge to reduce the animal traffic through the hedge, down to the star. We hope it makes a difference.
A cold and windy but dry morning, we stopped just before the rain started. Tidying was again the order of the day. At least the park is looking pretty good.
I spotted a fern, with spores, growing on the south wall.
