An Update on the Bulbs at Hurst Green Station

Crocus and Tete-a-Tete on the station approach

You may remember that the Gardening Club has been working with Mighty Oaks Youth Group (follow this link).  One of the projects that we undertook with them last year was the planting of some bulbs at the station in order both to improve the outlook for the residents, and to give an introduction to gardening to some of the youngsters that might like that sort of thing.

If you have been to the station recently, you should have seen that a number of the bulbs are now emerging.  We planted daffodils and crocuses amongst others, and the first of these have put in an appearance.  As this is the first year, they will appear rather sparse, but we hope and expect that the colonies of plants should soon establish and that, as the years go by, these will provide a much more spectacular sight.  We also intend to assist with more planting at the station to improve through the years, perhaps with primroses on the banks to replace all those primroses lost from the railways over the last fifty years.  We would also hope to have a second planting of bulbs to make up for any losses from the original planting, and to replace those that did not come up.

Daffodils on the bank

We have not finished with this project, and we are involving ourselves more with both the Mighty Oaks Youth Group and the newly established Creative Community project in Hurst Green.  We will be presenting more information at one of our meetings, and more details may be found on the Creative Community website, creativecommunityhg.blogspot.com.  It is early days, but watch this space!