Blooming Lovely!
The Floral Angels
Culter's floral "Angels" beside one of the tubs they lrave planted out on North Deeside Road -Nicola Hector, Lorrie Bilsborrow, Sandra Cooper & Helen Ramseyer
NORTH Deeside Road is looking a little more colourful this year thanks to the work of the Culter in Bloom team and the generosity of their supporters and sponsors. In the last issue of the Courier the four targets set by the committee were
• Improve the entrances to the village at both ends
• Approach businesses and groups to take a container and look after it
• Raise funds for hanging baskets on the lamp posts
• Increase planting of autumn bulbs We have succeeded with the first three - it's a bit early for the fourth but we have high hopes of a donation of bulbs from the City Council!
Jimmy Milne of Ardbeck House has been a great help to us, donating no fewer than 30 Balmoral containers, three of them already filled with plants or shrubs - he even located these personally with a forklift! The soil for the containers came from Stephen Donald and the plants from Easter Anguston. Our team members planted them all out over two very enjoyable and productive evenings. For every container we placed in the village we have found a kindly "fosterparent" - either a nearby business owner or a householder - who has agreed to water them through the summer, and contrary to forecasts from merchants of doom we have had scarcely any problems of vandalism.
The 18 hanging baskets are supplied and maintained throughout the summer by Aberdeen City Council, as is the striking "petunia pillar" at the police station. The cost was raised by donations from local businesses, supplemented by a grant by our councillor Pam MacDonald from her ward budget..
We are already looking ahead to an autumn bulb planting campaign, and perhaps to some further enhancements around our two bestkent landmarks - the west end of the village (near our mascot Rob Roy) and Lovers' Walk. Watch these spaces! Our aim is simply to make our village a better, brighter place to live and we thank everyone who has helped - in cash, labour or in kind - to achieve this goal. If you would like to join us, please contact our secretary Catherine Lacy.
We thank the following sponsors: Post Office; BP Garage; Richmond Garage, The Bush; Kan'yo; Mr & Mrs Bilsborrow; Mr & Mrs Ramseyer; TSA Stores, School Road; Bush Garage; The Ploughman; Brian Smith; Aberdein Considine; Culter Car Centre: Culter Gala; Deeside Interiors; The Hair Salon, Richmond Arms, Culter Community Council
Erik Stien