All 33 Brownies from the 4th and 4A Brownie packs at St Serf’s had a great time on Wednesday evening when they planted hundreds of snowdrops in Starbank Park. It was a part of their celebrations to mark a hundred years of Brownies. We’re all looking forward to seeing the mass of flowers every spring in the years to come.  Thanks to all the Brownies and their helpers.

It was a fine sunny morning in the park today.  Everything is growing and the park is looking pretty good.  The daffodils are a bit battered by the wind but they and the primulas are giving a great show.  The downside is an explosion of weeds but we are  working hard to keep them at bay, and we will beat them!

We had easily the best Wednesday morning of the year today, wall to wall sunshine and very spring-like temperatures.  13 Friends turned up and we got loads done, hoeing, edging, digging out dead and dying roses and general tidying.  The park Is looking good and, when the paths are done, it will be in pretty good order, well on the way back to its former elegance.

Glorious view on a glorious spring day

Fantastic News!   Councillor Lesley Hinds announced at the Trinity Community Council Meeting on Monday that the paths in Starbank Park are being resurfaced!  This will be a huge improvement for the park, making it much safer for all and much more accessible.

Another good week, 13 volunteers on a fine morning.  There was lots of done, with a couple of garden obelisks put up, a few bushes planted and loads of tidying.

Plenty signs of spring this week!  Daffodils nearly out, roses bursting ahead, a frog and caterpillars!

Planted in November

We think it’s rather nice!

It rained.  It had to happen.

Unpromising weather!

Nevertheless, 7 of us turned up and we enjoyed our rainbow.  We worked at the North wall, digging over all the bare earth just in front of it.  The soil is pretty ropey but it should support poppies and other wild flowers.

Before during and after our efforts

It’s the same old start: another fine Wednesday morning.   Seventeen fine Wednesdays in a row right through the winter!  It’s school mid term and 8 volunteers turned up for a productive Wednesday morning.  Edging, hoeing and general tidying was the order of the day.  Jen Johnstone, the Council’s North Edinburgh Park Ranger, had  good news on insurance so it was an excellent and productive day.  The borders are looking very trim and you can see that there are loads of daffodils coming through.

It was a really miserable early morning on Wednesday.  It was pouring, windy and cold. Then, just before 10, it stopped, just in time for our gardening session.  Ten hardy souls appeared and it was great to meet Jen Johnstone, our Park Ranger, today.  We look forward to working with her in our joint efforts to get the park back into shape.we cleared some of the remaining rose borders ready for planting and trimmed quite a few edges.  And there was even time to plant a couple of yews.

Well trimmed edges!

Ready for planting

Yew in the Terrace Border

22nd January and ideal weather for winter gardening, again!  We’ve had 14 gardening sessions in the Park since October and we’ve not had a bad day yet.

Ten of us cleared the weeds from the last of the perimeter borders, near the Laverockbank Road gate.  Weeding will be an on-going activity but the back of it is broken now.  Well done to all our volunteers.

The latest cleared area

We were delighted when Councillor Adam McVey from the Leith Ward joined us for the morning and helped plant a fig tree in the east border.  He was very constructive and helpful.  Thank you Adam for coming along.

Councillor Adam McVey planting our new fig tree