Thursday 8 May 2008

Meeting

We have received the notes from the Spring judging (see post below) so we have been thinking of ways to improve for Summer.

We also discussed ideas for our stall at Pudsey Carnival on the 17th May, organising a miniature garden competition for children and paying £1,000 for some extra hanging baskets on the Town Hall this year.

The group are split on how to best spend our money. Some want to do as much as possible with the money to improve the town for the whole community and also get as many marks as we can when the judges next visit. Ideas suggested include more permanent planting, wildlife areas, projects with children and tackling the negative points the judges mentioned in their feedback.

The other part of the group want to spend the money the easiest way possible by paying the council to put up temporary hanging baskets and water them for us until they are taken down in autumn.

We are also trying to decide how to plant up our barrier troughs for summer still.

Option one is to plant them with annuals and pay £40 per container to have them watered for the year.

Option 2 is to plant them with various drought tolerant plants that will require no watering. The money saved (£880) could be spent on permanent planting such as more colourful perennials and wildlife areas and projects in schools.

Option 3 is a bit of both!

We have also received a grant of £3,000 from West Leeds Area management so hopefully we will be able to do some exciting projects in the future.

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