Local volunteers have sown more than double their target number of bulbs in recent months. They got many free from the council and more from shop sales.

Well done and a big thank you to all of he wonderful gardeners who did all this.

As well as thousands in Queens Road Cemetery the list includes

• 500 bulbs Boundary road (between St Barnabas road and Chelmsford Rd)
• 200 in Broomfield flower beds
• 300 in Beaconsfield flower beds
• 150 in Beaconsfield/Boundary Rds grass corner junction.
• 550 in St Barnabas flower beds and boundaries
• 500 in Alexandra Rd (cul de sac end)
• 300 in Kirk/Lennox Rds
• 900 in Thomas Gamuel Park (400 tete a tete and 500 crocus).
• 100 Somerset Rd tree pits.
• 100 Chelmsford Road street bed opposite Thomas Gamuel Park

Plus the following number of bulbs were distributed for others to sow:

• 250 bulbs to Gosport road beds
• 600 to Edinburgh primary
• 400 to Queens Road station
• 100 to Belgrave/boundary bed
• 50 to Belgrave cargo planters
• 100 to Stafford Close tree pits
• 600 to Coppermill Lane flower beds.
• 300 to Verulam avenue school street flower beds x3
• 100 to Bowden road

Some bulbs have been reserved for planting in early 2024:

• 500 drumstick allium for street beds
• 200 camassia quamash for street beds
• 100 camassia quamash for Thomas Gamuel Park border
• 100 allium ping pong for St Barnabas/ Boundary
• 200 oxalis for street beds.
• 400 tete a tete and 200 white daffs in park hut for new rain gardens on mid Belgrave, Rutland and Devonshire.