Our Gardening convenor is Ina Cameron, who is supported by a small Gardening Group and approximately 30 gardening volunteers. Together they have the responsibility for designing, planting and maintaining our various flower and shrub displays across Milngavie. Refer to Our Gardens page for more detail on our gardens.

 

Our gardening volunteers meet on the second Wednesday and fourth Saturday of each month at the Community Bed, outside the Fraser Centre. Our sessions last approx. 90 minutes and often finish with a cup of tea in the Fraser Centre.

 

There are always tasks to do from deadheading, pruning, dividing or transplanting herbaceous plants. Twice a year we refresh the various planters and baskets across the precinct with a mix of perennial and annual planting. These need regular deadheading and watering - we have a small team who operate our watering bowser making sure that in the summer months these plants don’t dry out.

 

In the Autumn we gather fallen leaves which is an important first stage in making an invaluable soil improver which we use as a mulch to suppress weeds and feed our perennial plants. We host a Big Leaf Clear at the end of November – and we always need additional helpers for this task. We are also enhancing the spring bulb display in Lennox Park and have oneoff planting sessions, often on a Sunday afternoon, when we plant more bulbs.

 

That said, you don’t need to be an experienced gardener to join us – you will be paired with another volunteer to make sure you are comfortable with the job in hand. Or if you would like to join our watering team, that would be a welcome help too.

 

In addition, there are a number of sub groups who look after particular areas on a regular basis for example our Station Adopters, the  West Highland Way team who work alongside the Bearsden and Milngavie Ramblers, or the Allander Road neighbourhood team.  We also have a small team who tend the flower beds outside the Town Hall outside our normal volunteering sessions.

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If you’d like to get involved with any of these groups, please speak to Ina or our Volunteer convenor Douglas.

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For dates of  up coming gardening sessions click here.

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