Beautiful displays in March and April & Can You Help for One Hour?

With the advent of spring on Sunday (1.3.26) some of the best and largest displays of spring bulbs are now peeping through at four of the Friends of Maghull & Districts (FOMD) projects. The bulbs flower for only a couple of weeks, so please get to see them early to enjoy the first beautiful uplifting signs of spring.

• The Stafford Moreton Way Eco-Garden and the Parkbourn Wildflower Garden are our smallest projects with hundreds of daffodil bulbs.
• The Woodend Community Woodland Project (Bobbys Wood next to Bumbles Nursery) has about 4000 daffodil bulbs, 100 tulips and thousands of bluebells starting to make an appearance in between the rear pathway and the town’s largest community flower border.
• The Rowlands Dell NHS health and wellness green transformation project has just finished a display of hundreds of snowdrops, which are being overtaken by Crocus, 10,000 daffodils, hundreds of bluebells and countless white bluebells (which are in fact Three Cornered Leek due to the triangular stems, garlic smell and white Bluebell type flowers).

Please add your photographs but in the meantime, here are a few of the early displays.

Please can you help by volunteering for one hour on Wednesday (4.3.26) or support with cash or woodland plant donations….

Venue & Tasks.

We would love your help for a spare one hour from 09.30 hours on Wednesday (4.3.26), at Rowlands Dell (opposite the newly refurbished Hare & Hounds PH, L31 2HF), to make a fantastic difference to our environment.

Several tasks to choose from:

• Creating a dead hedge to hide the new compost bin made from recycled pallets.
• Weeding new woodland.
• Cutting back Ivy hedge (Main focus).
• Planting recently donated plants.

Equipment needed: sturdy boots, garden gloves, garden/hand fork, kneeling pad, spade, loppers.

Huge thanks to:

• Colin, Joan, Frank, Harry (DoE), Linda, Diane and John who last Saturday (28.2.26) watered 38 newly planted rhododendrons, consolidated unearthed rocks, planted recently donated anemones, red-hot pokers, (courtesy of Neil) boxwood shrub (courtesy of Ken and Julie) and painstakingly reduced the perimeter Ivy hedge with three agricultural bags transported to the recycling centre.

Many Thanks for the Fantastic Community Donated Plants:

• Two Small Christmas Trees, donated by Sarah (25.2.26)
• Two small trees – Red Robin and Weeping Willow, donated by Nicola (3.3.26)
• Thank you to Kim for her kind offer of multiple shrubs that unfortunately were too established to transfer.

If You Would like to Help in the Future?

Volunteer sessions (everyone is welcome without any commitment) can be found on our Events calendar page at https://www.fomd.co.uk/events/ where you will find all the details.

Crowdfunding Campaign. We are hoping to raise further funds in 2026 for steps handrails, eco-educational signage and mass planting for two of the four planned nature zones. Please donate online at www.fomd.co.uk or with cash at the Hare & Hounds PH, Morrisons, Esso Petrol Station.

Rowlands Dell Introduction (3min Video): https://youtu.be/lxrTdudVza8?si=AM_znsaI35Cose-M

Background and Exciting Developments at Rowlands Dell.

This beautiful haven for wildlife has unbelievably been treated as an open tip for decades, where every inch has revealed a variety of pollutants harmful to wildlife. In our three-stage plan, stage I has resulted in Maghull’s biggest ever 46-week cleanup in which FOMD have removed 300 bin bags of litter and 25 tons of debris (2024).

In Stage II (November 2024), with the help of our NHS landowner partners we successfully obtained a health and wellness grant (Maghull’s largest green investment) to fund an amazing legacy array of hard landscaping installations. These features provided accessibility for the whole community and included: accessible path, viewing/picnic area, sunken garden, bins, 10,000 bulbs and planting at small junction points, bug and bird boxes, and a dry waterfall feature). A Morrisons grant has enabled us to create the ongoing bog garden and wishing well.

We now need your help throughout 2026 for funding and planting to complete a beautiful restorative legacy haven.

All the Best,

Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD)

Together making Maghull a better place to live.

More information at www.fomd.co.uk including: (1) Events tab for everything about the meeting and (2) Projects tab for the project background.

Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk

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