All posts in the topic How about a street flowerbed adoption scheme? (Short link)
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- Latest post made by Gus Bianchini at Oct 28 21:58 UTC
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As the flowerbed on the corner of B&Q on the junction of Rymers Lane and
Between Towns Road has been torn up once again, how about locals getting
together and adopting such a bed?
It cannot do any worse than the Council ripping up a large perennial flowering
shrub that had been there for some years and to replace it with annuals, then
give up altogether! Maybe another perennial could be chosen by a group local
for that plot and a group photograph be taken? Surely there can be nothing
better than to give the local populace some pride in where they live?
Richard
Just to keep the record straight the Council did not rip out the
perennial bed at the top of Rymers
Lane. This was done several years ago by the Gas Board who had to carry
out some major works.The flower bed which went in was sponsored by W G
Powell for several years but unfortunately this did not continue. The
Council took 40K of savings on floral displays from the Parks Budget
which meant that beds which were not sponsored did not get planted this
year.
Dave Reeve
Assistant Parks Manager (Grounds Maintenance and Cemeteries)
Land Line 01865 467270
Internal 7270
Mobile 07850757994
Your local Park...Litter-strewn or litter-free? Brilliant or Boring? A
no-go area or a safe place to be?...What would make it better? Visit
www.millionvoices.org.uk to have your say about Oxford's Parks and Play
Areas.
Read tonights Oxford mail page 12. May be its time your local "Guerilla
gardeners" planned a mission to sort out your flower beds.
Ask your local resident association for some funding or better still B&Q if
they will donate plants its worth a try, although they would not give the
Horspath crew any.
Being as the location is closer to them they may want to help brighten the area
up for the winter. There are other parts of the city where the local authority
has not skimped on the floral displays. See picture of what Horspath Road had
to put up with.
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