The dazzling display of daffodils are fading and replaced by a unbelievable carpet of white and blue bells. However, the white looks like white bluebells, smelling like garlic, but in fact are three cornered leak (due to their triangular stems). Nevertheless, you will be blown away by their magical display. Can you help with the ongoing transformation?

Venue & Tasks.

The Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) need volunteers to meet at Rowlands Dell (adjacent to the Hare & Hounds Pub) for one hour on Thursday (26.4.25) at 09:30 hours, to:

• Continue removing debris created from Yew tree planting – whilst it is still visible to prevent damaging tools during future maintenance work.
• Continue breaking up the twigs to start creating multiple bug friendly tree and vegetation piles within the new woodland area.
• Water some recently kindly donated plants and Yew tree hedge.

Equipment needed: sturdy boots, garden gloves and spade.

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.

Thank You 

Although we did not organise an official session over the last week due to the unpredictable nature of the weather, we would like to thank Jill, Graham, Diane and Frank for the impromptu visits to the Dell to undertake the following:

• litter picking
• planting – 11 potted plants (courtesy of James) in upper dry waterfall, a small oak tree (courtesy of Sylvia and Harry celebrating Sylvia’s 80^th birthday) near lower path, two huge azaleas and one huge hydrangea (courtesy of A Westway Medical Centre Clearance) in slope below dry waterfall.
• Watering of new plant donations.
• Emptied two bins.
• Continued creating the bog garden (courtesy of the TCV volunteers), who wheel barrowed in three tons of topsoil and landscaped.

Huge thanks to one and all,

FOMD

Together making Maghull a better place to live.

Background to 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 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.

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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