After the soggy winter, the early spring sunshine is providing a fantastic opportunity to get out and be dazzled by Maghull’s unmissable and uplifting displays of over 10,000 newly planted daffodils at Rowlands Dell. Don’t miss out as the stunning blooms only last a couple of weeks.

The daffodils have now overtaken the hundreds of fading Crocus and Snowdrops, which in turn will be superseded in April by countless bluebells and huge carpets of ‘white bluebells’ (Three Cornered Leek), followed by striking May displays of Alliums and Camassia.

Our glorious Daffodils are also on display at our three other sites:

Woodend Community Woodland Project (Bobbys’ Wood next to Bumbles Nursery) has about 4000 daffodil bulbs, 100 tulips and thousands of bluebells, planted four years ago by FOMD with fantastic support from the local scouts.

Stafford Moreton Way Eco-Garden and the Parkbourn Wildflower Garden are our smallest projects with hundreds of daffodil bulbs.

‘Love Is All You Need’ New Art Installation.

Rowlands Dell was recently crowned (6.3.26) with the ‘Love Is All You Need’ art installation, to highlight all the community ‘love and kindness’ that has poured into Maghull’s award-winning Rowlands’ Dell Project.

Please can you help by volunteering for one hour on Wednesday (18.3.26) or support with cash or woodland plant donations….

Venue & Tasks.

We would love your help for a spare one hour from 09.00 hours on Wednesday (18.3.26), 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 & rockery (main task)
• Planting recently donated plants.
• Creating a cairn from excavated rocks (main task).
• Backfilling wishing well with cement and pebbles.

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

Huge thanks to:

Joan, Linda, Harry (DoE), John (L), John (W), John (F) (pictured) and Colin, Frank (not pictured) who last Saturday (14.3.26) yet again dazzled by remarkably achieving the following in only one hour:

• Continued Cutting back Ivy hedge in preparation for new Holly hedge at the end of the year, resulting in three agricultural bags (nine in total) removed the recycling centre. Wanted green wind screening.
• Mowed grass.
• Turned compost and topped up with further compost.
• Watered New Plants.
• Ongoing Sandstone Wall Repairs. Thank you to Sefton Council for (1) applying measurement strips to monitor any wall movement and (2) the huge task of transferring a lamppost away from the wall to help reduce further subsidence to the wall and external pavement (11.3.26).

URGENT TREEPLANTING VOLUNTEERS WANTED.

We need a green army of treeplanting volunteers to plant 1400 trees at St Thomas’ Primary School in March 2026. Please send your contact details to admin@fomd.co.uk and we will get back to you ASAP. Please help make the most amazing difference to our environment with any time you can spare long or short.

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/ oh 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, Essar 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, 12,000 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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