The Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) are immensely grateful to local residents Jenny and Ian who kindly offered to donate some rockery and four unused gabion baskets, following a chance encounter.
To make the rustic seating, we constructed the two 6 foot and two 4 foot baskets, filled them with rocks, sealed them with laced wire and then used some of our donated funds to purchase and transport from Burnley, some beautiful, brown natural effect, plastic recycled low maintenance planks that we secured on top of the baskets. They are now situated in reflective woodland spaces along a new natural pathway at Rowlands Dell green restoration project.
In addition, many thanks to Richard from PR England landscapers who kindly transported the baskets and rocks, and once again huge thanks to Jenny and Ian for such an amazing donation.
Please Donate:
Please help the 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, heathers 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 now 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 this month, 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. We are now engaging in stage three to repopulate Rowlands Dell with woodland planting and need your help.
Join Our Massive tree planting program in Maghull early in the new year. Please register your interest 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: During and After.
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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