Community re-plant

Our wellies are starting to look scruffy so it is time for a clean up and replant to make it look wonderful again and I have arranged for a community re-plant to which you are all invited on Saturday the 22nd of September at the shops on Wellington Road, Oxton, Prenton, Ch43 2JE from 10.30 til 2.30pm

Facebook event page for our community re-plant

We need all hands on deck - bring a trowel, bring cuttings, bring old wellies for planting. Some plants, some wellies and some trowels will be provided but anymore that you can bring with you will be most helpful. 

Radio Four's wonderful programme Gardeners Question Time (GQT) recorded me asking a question about the wellies on one of the recordings made at Ness Gardens last week. The radio show has a potential audience of 2 million and at the moment, the wellies are not looking good so to save our blushes in between the broadcast on the 21st of September and the 23rd of September, let's make the road look as fab as it did and have some fun while we do it. Light rain will not stop play but heavy rain will....!

• Any neighbours with wellies that need replanting, please bring them along, and any neighbours with gardens, take a look for any plants that need dividing or any with small plants you want rid of that will fit in the wellies as it will help to stretch our budget a little further.

The Fireman's wellies

Hursts get their tiered stand so check it out when you go and get your hot cross buns

Stacey taking care of the plants

Yesterday, I picked up the stands (made from old pallets) from Cornerstone Vocational Training Centre in Birkenhead to start putting the wellies together for Hursts Bakery. I chose red, black and green wellies for them to fit with their distinctive bright red paint work. We decided to put the stand in an used doorway on the cafe side of the business. The staff seemed thrilled that they have their plants as the excitment about the new project is building. We are just waiting for one stand for The Hair Lounge to be completed. The others are being stored at SDA Survey and Design in their yard. Gary in the Festival Flowers has been working on his own ideas and think we may see it very soon...great!

Thanks to Darren from The Coffee Shop and Lloyd from Simply Food and Drinks for helping move the stands into position, they were too heavy for me!

Barb from Streaks Ahead has been doing a great job sweeping and tidying. Thankfully, the back alley has remained tidy for over a week now. We are expecting our planter from Wirral Council any time now but until then other plants have been appearing around the shops and a pair of concrete welly boots with foxgloves and periwinkle in is overseeing it all from the first house after the shops.

We have been getting loads of wellies through the Green Community Shop and Centre in Oxton Village on Christchurch Road but we have been getting also loads through the dumps.....I have got to have enough wellies for the 7 stands still to do and then the pairs for each householder so don't stop giving us your wellies we still need them so we can be "welly" good. So find a welly wheelie bin at Clatterbridge, Bidston or West Kirby dumps (thanks to Veolia Environmental Services) or take them to The Green Shop in Oxton Village or to The Coffee Shop on Wellington Road (in fact any of the businesses on Wellington Road as they are as keen as me to get this done) It has already started bonding the businesses and building the community spirit.

I am planning to create some bunting from plastic material used for creating bouncy castles that I have seen at The Play Council in Birkenhead for some of the businesses. We want each business to develop it's own style on their stands. Each shop has been given a watering can for them to take care of the plants.