The Growing Group is currently identifying spaces in Montpelier to plant trees, fruits, vegetables and wildlife friendly plants. We welcome all residents to get involved.
As well as our most valuable resource – people power (!) – we are also in need of materials to transform these spaces. If you have anything to offer, or know of a great place to get things (either for free or at good value) then please let us know by posting a comment below or emailing shiona_macp@hotmail.com. The most obvious items we will need are:
- Compost
- Well rotted manure
- Top Soil
- Wood and other materials to make raised beds
- Screws/nails etc
- Water butts (or equivalent)
- Seeds
- Plants
- Trees for replanting
- Organic plant food (eg comfrey tea, seaweed extracts)
Any ideas on sources of funding for these items would also be extremely welcome!
Many thanks, the Growing Team
Does Period Fireplaces have any large crates for slates or stones that could be used as planters? Or would Imagination Solar in the industrial estate use slates?
Plants available:
summer jasmine, to cover walls etc
rose that seeded itself – probably a shrub rose
barren fig
yellow tree peony
lots of flowering herbaceous plants, many self seeding or creeping, most suitable for ‘wild’ planting – not many pampered garden plants in here:
white and sweet vilets
love in a mist
rudbeckia – tall
lungwort
libertia – evergreen
shasta daisy – tall
alchemilla mollis
cabbage stock
hellebore
snowdrop
white campion type plant – tall
Mrs Sinkins pink
white flag iris – tall
white Arum lily
nerine lily
geraniums – white, pink, blue
columbine, purple
campanula, low-growing
cowslips
cyclamen
bistort
yellow archangel
phlomis ruselliana
sweet woodruff
papyrus variety – low-growing grass
Possibly others as well. If any one wants any for a community planting or their own garden let me know.
Best wishes
sue
Wow! That’s fantastic – thanks very much Sue. I’m sure we can use them somewhere around and about!
Cheers,
Shiona