Our Green Flag inspection is on 12th May so there is lots to do.
Saturday Gardening Session, 25th April, 10.00-11.30
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Glorious Morning
Terrific morning, it was warm with wall to wall sunshine. We weeded and weeded and planted a few more ferns (thank you Bridget). The park is looking good, with the tulips and primulas, in particular, fantastic.
Gardening Session: Wednesday, 22 April, 10.00-11.30
Weather forecast is fine, lots to do, please came and help if you can.
Gardening Session: Saturday 18th April, 10.00-11.30
The forecast is for a sunny day, please come along and help.
We have a new fernery!
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.
Gardening Session: Wednesday, 15th April, 10.00-11.30
There are plants to plant and weeds to weed. Please come along if you can.
No wind, sunny and warm!
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.
Next Gardening Session: Wednesday, 8 April, 10.00-11.30
Park is looking great, there’s lots to do and the forecast is dry. Please come along if you can.
Rolling eggs at the park
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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A peculiar hyacinth and we’re using our own compost!
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.
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