Please help the Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) with donations of woodland themed plants/shrubs or cash donations to buy the same so we can repopulate Rowlands Dell (adjacent to the Hare & Hounds Pub). We are looking for: hydrangeas, rhododendrons, ferns etc to populate the area between the new upper path and the top of the slope.
The community was unbelievable at our previous Woodend project when local residents donated plants and funding amounting to 500 plants to form the largest community woodland border in Maghull’s history (50x4m). In Rowlands Dell we have already broken records by (1) undertaking Maghull’s biggest ever cleanup and (2) attracted Maghull’s largest ever green hard landscaping investment (see background) but (3) putting nature back into the Dell represents the most exciting stage.
You can donate funds through our yellow donate button on our webpage https://www.fomd.co.uk/ or if you would like to donate plants please email admin@fomd.co.uk
Background.
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 266 bin bags of litter and 25 tons of debris. In the two months of Stage II, that was completed in November, with our NHS landowner partners (expertly installed by subcontractors – PR England Landscapers) using a health and wellness grant fund (representing Maghull’s largest green investment) have installed an amazing legacy array of hard landscaping installations to provide accessibility for the whole community (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). We are now engaging in stage three to repopulate Rowlands Dell with woodland planting and need your help.
Thank you to:
- Two Olive Trees, kindly donated by Carmel (which we recently planted either side of a new seating area to provide shelter and a beautiful feature).
- Community and Mersey Forest. Due to the exhausted NHS grant funding, we are enormously grateful for the community tree donations and 18 received from Mersey Forest (following the dissembling of a Tatton Park display including: Hornbeam, Cherry, Hazel, Hawthorne, Beech, Oak, Maple) that we transported from the Dell holding area, to provide further interest along the pathway, alongside many other future woodland zones of interest.
- The volunteers (Ros, Jill, Colin, Graham, Frank, and Christine) who kindly and cheerfully started planting the trees.
- A special thank you for some incredible donations this month from Paul, Clare and Richard amounting to £150.
Please Join Our Massive tree planting (2,500) program in Maghull & Lydiate early in the new year. Please register your interest ASAP by emailing admin@fomd.co.uk with your contact details and we will be delighted to get back to you to offer you some dates for our community tree planting program.
More information at www.fomd.co.uk including: (1) Events tab for everything about the meeting and (2) Projects tab for the project background.
Pictures: the donated Mersey Forest trees in the holding area and the two recently planted donated olive trees.
Happy New Year,
FOMD
Together Making Maghull a better place to live.
More information. www.fomd.co.uk
Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk
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