There’s a Gardening Session on Wednesday, 10-11.30. The forecast is fair, please come if you can.
Wednesday Gardening Session, 11 November, 10-11.30
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Saturday Gardening: 7 November, 10-11.30
There’s a gardening session on Saturday at 10.00. There’s plenty to do and a reasonable forecast. Please come along if you can.
Children’s nature trail on track
The Friends of Starbank Park and Victoria Primary are working together to construct a children’s nature trail in Starbank Park. Plans for this exciting new development are well advanced. Our highly successful Halloween Party raised enough funds for us to bring forward our start date and we hope to start the construction work in the next few weeks. With fair weather, successful fund-raising and a bit of luck, it will be finished in the spring.
Wednesday Gardening Session: 4 November, 10-11.30
There’s a gardening session tomorrow, usual time. There’ still lots to do, planting and tidying. Weather forecast is a little iffy with early morning rain clearing during the morning. But it never rains on a Wednesday!!
Dark, damp but productive
There was a heavy shower around 10, not good news. But it soon dried although it remained dark and damp. We helped Julie and her team plant the winter bedding (under Rocco’s supervision) and we cleaned out the bothies, ready for the Halloween Party on Saturday. The Autumn leaves still look fabulous.
Wednesday Gardening Session, 28 October, 10-11.30
The Wednesday gardening Session is on at the usual time, 10 -11.30. Please come if you can as there’s lots to do.
Saturday Gardening, 24 October, 10-11.30
There’s a gardening session in the third best park in Scotland, on Saturday, usual time! Come along if you can.
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.
Friends of Starbank Park 