Welly Road revisited!

Welly Road went national today with GQT

Gardeners Question Time link

My question comes near the end for the project but listen from the start as all interesting stuff and actualy inspired m to purchase some Kale for the wellies too as well as Christmas trees.

And for added inspiration a song from Sinatra, enlight of one of the answers from the panel

Woops there goes another Rubber Tree Plant!

We are still using up the money from our second grant to fund this replant tomorrow 10.30 til 2.30 and Birkenhead School have organised a replant of their wellies as part of their open day tomorrow.

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

The Coffee Shop gets in on the community spirit

Darren who runs The Coffee Shop on Wellington Road came and had a chat today about having a community plant for local homes for adults with special needs. Great idea!

So the plan is on Sunday at 3pm after he has closed the cafe, the residents of the homes will come and plant a welly or two. He wants to go with red, white and blue colours so will sort the wellies and plants to suit his theme and planning to make some bunting to add to the festive feel. He is thinking ahead about the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics.

Paul Doughty from SDA survey and design has helped collected the stands created by Cornerstone Vocational Training.

A new neighbour has moved into one of the flats above the shops and has helped cleaning the back alley behind the shops, and inspired me to finish it off taking stuff that had been fly-tipped and buddleia branches to the recycling plant at Bidston - combining it with collecting wellies from the Welly Wheelie Bin that Veolia have placed strategically as you come into the sorting bays...last time I was there I got 8 pairs of wellies. Derry Hunter, a local artist and gardener has also been helping collecting the wellies when she drops off garden waste. Her last haul was 16 pairs of wellies from Clatterbridge recycling plant. Everytime, I go into The Green Community Shop and Centre, Jo announces she has wellies for me.

Hoping to do another community plant with a local Beavers troop and waiting to hear from Rainbows and Brownies at the local church.

Welly Road goes dib did dibbling

I went to visit Birkenhead School Cubs and Scouts group on Bidston round. 28 young men and one young lady helped plant 53 wellies and they are going to take care of them until I need them....and they are going to help distribute them to neighbours prior to the Sceret Gardens of Oxton in May.  Many thanks to Akela Yvonne getting involved.

Also heard yesterday from our local councillor that Welly Road should be getting it's very own permanent planter...we are getting all pretty finally. Gary from Festival Flowers was hanging lots of baskets on the side of his...and makes me realise there is one place that is getting neglected...MINE!!! So I will be sorting my front garden soon, I promise!

101 wellies planted!

I had a moment today to do some planting on my own as I was worrying about bulbs not getting in the soil before I have a chance to do a community plant, so our grand total of planted wellies is 101 with about 3 at Birkenhead School. Today's bulbs were Rembrandt tulips & crocuses. I have even colour sorted the wellies, so all reds together, blues, blacks, greens, reds and patterned and 3 yellow wellies. Surprising really, would have thought yellow wellies would have been more popular.

Impromptu community plant

Catherine of The Hair Lounge on Wellington Road and Derry

Danny from SDA Survey and Design who are based in the old post office on Wellington Road

The Cornerstone Vocational Training Centre

Today I went to take a look at the wooden structures made from recycled pallets by The Cornerstone Vocational Training Centre, made by young men getting a chance at learning vocational skills. They have made about a 1/3rd of the planters, although the remaining ones are more complicated but I am happy that they will be strong enough to cope with the filled wellies.

Desperately seeking Wellies- even leaking wellies

Wellies galore
ANY WELLIES GLADLY RECEIVED AT THE GREEN COMMUNITY SHOP AND CENTRE on Christchurch Road, Oxton Village

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