Flower Beds In The Village

During 2019 and into 2020 ADAS plans were developed to enable the village planting schemes to become more sustainable.

The need for improved sustainability means:

• More permanent planting with reduced annual planting
• Less watering
• reduced use of compost
• reduction in maintenance activities

In summary our plan reflects the needs of the village and sustainability drivers by:

• Create sensory planting scheme for the Lord Combermere beds that are normally planted with summer bedding plants
• Create alpine flower bed at the village sign at Tollgate drive and Little Heath that are normally planted with summer bedding plants
• Used granite setts recovered from the aforementioned village sign bed to replace the wooden part of the millennium bed wall at the car park entrance
• Changed the planting at the front of the Methodist Chapel as many plants died through salt contamination from the road – 5 new troughs installed paid for by the Methodist Chapel and ADAS
• Cleared and replanted flower bed at entrance to Shroppie Fly pub
• Installed 12 water butts holding 1700 litres of water
• Planted tubs and troughs with mostly perennial plants to reduce watering, maintenance and costs
• We tried perennial plants in the hanging baskets but many residents told us was a lack of colour in the display, so this year we have Begonia Starshine Calypso