We had a brilliant wine and cheese evening on Thursday night. It was a fitting celebration of a year of great progress. The weather was glorious, there was a great turn-out, almost 50, and we had a great time. Definitely worth repeating!
Also, thanks to Fields in Trust for their goodie box which certainly added to the occasion.
The terrace hedge has now been cut! We have taken off about 90cm all the way round and the view from the benches of Fife and the Firth of Forth has been restored. 
It was a substantial undertaking by hand and we cut off an awful lot of hedge; you can see it piled up against the wall!
First ever wet Wednesday, and we started about 9 months ago! Eight hardy souls came along today and, after chatting for a while, we realised that the rain had almost gone off. We put the time to good use and did some weeding and cut some more of the terrace hedge. It’s been a pretty big undertaking but it will be finished soon!
Friends of Starbank Park are holding an informal wine and cheese evening for members and prospective members in Starbank Park, beside Starbank House, on Thursday, 7th August from 7.30-9.30. We are celebrating the improvements in the park over the past year and we’ll be delighted if you come and join us.
Stan has used up all the mulch on the perimeter borders. It’s made a huge difference. But there’s still a lot to cover and we hope we can get some more to finish the job.
We’ve been cutting back the hedge at the terrace border so that you can see the view. It’s not finished yet but the improvement is quite clear from these “before and after” cutting views from the benches.
And we weeded some more, flower borders, gutters and paths! Just look at the nice clean borders!
The park is looking good in the sunshine.
We are still busy, battling away against the weeds , cutting the hedges back and generally tidying the park
The wood mulch has arrived and, thanks to Stan, it is already being spread over the perimeter borders. It is a huge step forward in our battle against the weeds.
It was a glorious summer morning at the park on Wednesday and we celebrated by “anchoring” the Friends of Starbank park boat planter at the gate next to the Starbank Inn. We’ve even started planting.
There was loads of other activity this week with the area round the Marion Morton planter tidied, grass seeding and yet more weeding!
Some roses, together with an occasional bug, in Starbank Park on 2 July.
And a French Marigold
It was an excellent morning for gardening today and we made best possible use of it, doing loads of weeding and edging. There is always more to do but the park is looking pretty good.
