We would like to thank Cllr Dr Mike Desmond (pictured), colleagues and Green Sefton for their support and for working immensely hard to provide ten large standard trees, comprising of (1) five fruit trees completing the picnic/viewing/community orchard area and (2) five red birch trees completing the sunken garden area at your national award-winning Rowlands
Last Wednesday (25.3.26) our altruistic community responded magnificently at short notice to plant 1400 trees at St Thomas’ Primary School (Kenyon’s Lane, Lydiate). The Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) in collaboration with the school received the invaluable trees at short notice from Mersey Forest, which needed to be planted before the end of the
At Rowlands Dell, the unprecedented, unmissable uplifting displays of over 10,000 newly planted daffodils are at their stunning best. They have now overtaken the hundreds of fading Crocus and Snowdrops, which in turn are being superseded by countless bluebells and huge carpets of ‘white bluebells’ (Three Cornered Leek), followed by striking May displays of Alliums
FOMD recommended six minute video highlighting Forestry England’s resilience strategy to assess, diversify and restore nature 2025 has been a year of real progress for wildlife across England’s forests. From species making a long-awaited return to creative habitat work happening above and below ground, these stories show how nature can recover when given the space
The RECLAIM Urban Greening “How-To” Toolkit offers practical, evidence-based guidance to help councils and community organisations plan and deliver nature-based solutions. Its fact sheets outline actions to tackle air pollution, flooding, heat and biodiversity loss using green and blue infrastructure. RECLAIM News | 5 min read and watch + toolkit https://reclaim-network.org/toolkit Contents. Urban Greening for
As part of FOMD’s Rowlands Dell Community NHS health and wellness green transformation project we have installed the ‘Love Is All You Need’ installation on Friday (6.3.26) to highlight how love and kindness can enhance community and nature exemplified throughout this ongoing project. We would like to thank: Mike Pollard (retired joiner) for cutting out
Beautiful displays in March and April & Can You Help? 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
Richie the Ranger FOMD Recommended March Guided Walks
The Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) are absolutely delighted to have secured 1400 trees for St Thomas’ Primary School. Loss of Local Nature. Following the profound loss of the school’s neighbouring panorama of nature to housebuilding. The area has been identified as part of the local plan for considerable housing development, increasing our 26,000
Please help with either cash donations for shrubs or if you have any evergreen woodland shrubs you would like to donate now would be an ideal time for transplanting. For cash donations please visit our website at www.fomd.co.uk and press the yellow donate button. For plant donations please contact FOMD at admin@fomd.co.uk Rowlands’ Dell Project
