The Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) are meeting for one hour tomorrow to plant over 20 trees and shrubs and any other kindly donated woodland themed plants that you may wish to bring along e.g. rhododendrons, hydrangeas, azaleas, ferns, heathers, maple and fern trees etc.

We are meeting on Saturday 4.1.25 at 11:00 hours (for one hour only) at Rowlands Dell (opposite the Hare and Hounds Pub).

We are simply digging holes to plant the trees/shrubs, so you will need the essential sturdy boots, garden gloves, and a spade. Despite all the warm heartedness it might be a chilly one so please wrap up well.

Huge thanks for any help you can provide and if you can’t make it please consider a financial donation to boost our green restoration planting spectacular by visiting www.fomd.co.uk and hit the yellow donation button at the top right of the page.

Lots more volunteer opportunities will be coming up soon, so please keep an eye on our events calendar.

Huge thanks and happy New Year to one and all,

FOMD

Together making Maghull a better place to live.

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.

Pictured: the trees that need planting. 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.

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.

More information. www.fomd.co.uk

Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk

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