bulbs – GGERA https://www.ggera.org.uk Golders Green Estate Residents Association Wed, 08 Jan 2025 09:21:43 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.ggera.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-icon-512x512-32x32.png bulbs – GGERA https://www.ggera.org.uk 32 32 Bulb Planting https://www.ggera.org.uk/events/bulb-planting-2/ Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:14:00 +0000 https://www.ggera.org.uk/?p=740 If you are free this Friday morning (22nd November), join us from 10 am at The Vale to plant more snowdrops and crocuses. A few extra pairs of hands would be super helpful. Thank you and see you there!

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We’re looking forward to seeing you there! We need as many volunteers as possible to help.

We will be planting on the grassy island in The Vale furthest from Claremont Road.

Please bring along trowels / gloves / spades if you have them!

Tea / coffee and biscuits will be available on site — outside 207 The Vale.

We’re excited that the Mayor of Barnet will be visiting the site on Saturday at 11:30 am.

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Special thanks to Councillor Giulia Innocenti and to residents from The Vale for securing funding for this opportunity to beautify and improve the ecology of the green corridor in The Vale.

]]> Green Spaces in The Vale https://www.ggera.org.uk/news/green-spaces-in-the-vale/ Tue, 25 May 2021 06:00:00 +0000 https://www.ggera.org.uk/?p=420 You will remember that early in 2020 GGERA volunteers planted a variety of spring bulbs in the green spaces on The Vale, thanks to the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association. The aim was to create a corridor of wild flowers which will look colourful and smell divine AND will entice butterflies and bees to come and make their home here too.

You may also remember that UK Power Networks dug up all our planting efforts a few months later.

We have some good news at last: Thanks to Maureen Byrne’s persistence one of the executives of the company has now promised compensation AND will himself assist with the replanting.

And while we’re on the subject …

Why not sow some wildflower seeds, which attract butterflies, bees and other pollinators, in your garden?

Pollination is important because it’s how plants reproduce and bear fruit. Over recent years, because of pesticides, our pollinators are dying and they desperately need the sustenance from wildflowers.

At the very least they are beautiful to look at.

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We have previously mentioned that a variety of spring bulbs have been planted in the green spaces on The Vale and on the roundabout in Pennine Drive.

Now is the time to enjoy them!

We’re also pleased to see that the Council have recently cleared autumn leaves and cleaned gutters around the estate. Some new trees have also been planted.

]]> Help Needed on Saturday Please! https://www.ggera.org.uk/events/help-needed-on-saturday-please/ Fri, 06 Dec 2019 11:20:00 +0000 http://www.ggera.org.uk/?p=285 Do you have an hour to spare tomorrow, Saturday between 10:00 am and 1:00 pm to help beautify our neighbourhood?
 
We have received a generous and kind donation of bulbs from the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association (narcissi, snowdrops and hyacinths).  Maureen and Rita have already planted some in The Vale.  We need to plant the remainder as soon as possible.
 
Pamela, a local resident and professional gardener, has kindly offered to lead a group of us in planting them on the roundabout in Pennine Drive. We hope that you’ll be able to join her, Lisa and Luisa in this fantastic endeavour.
 
If you have any gardening gloves, bulb planters or spades, please bring them along.

]]> Spring Bulbs https://www.ggera.org.uk/news/spring-bulbs/ Wed, 04 Sep 2019 17:49:39 +0000 http://www.ggera.org.uk/?p=234 Over the coming months a variety of spring bulbs will be planted in the green spaces on The Vale. This will attract bees and other pollinating insects, will look very pretty and will be low maintenance.

We’d like to thank Thomson and Morgan who are donating bulbs for this project and the Brent Cross South Community Fund for their donation.

]]> Bulb Planting https://www.ggera.org.uk/events/bulb-planting/ Sun, 29 Nov 2015 22:00:40 +0000 http://www.ggera.org.uk/?p=56 The Metropolitan Public Gardens Association in association with Taylors Bulbs of Holbeach has donated 1,300 spring bulbs for us to plant in the Pennine Drive Roundabout – including Irises, Alliums, Hyacinths, Tulips and Daffodils.

Planting will take place at the same time as the litter pick-up.  So do come along to help with this.  Meet at the Ron Thomas Hall at 10:15 am, or come straight to the roundabout a little later.

Please bring any handy tools such as trowels and help produce a beautiful display for spring!

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