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The old boat, one our first projects, has now become a permanent feature on Fisher Street and often appears on postcards, in The Courier and as a backdrop for locals and tourists photographs.Spring 2015

View from Broughty Castle looking east

From small beginings in 2008, Broughty Ferry in Bloom is gaining in momentum. In 2014 we succeeded in keeping our hard won Silver Gilt in the Coastal Resort Category, scoring a few points more than the year before. The group meet on the second Tuesday evening of every month at Broughty Ferry Library - all wecome! As with all small towns there is an overlap with members belonging to other organisations each bringing different skills and viewpoints to the group. The Barnhill Rock gardeners are a vital resource for Broughty in Bloom, as is the Garden. There is also a happy friendship with our neighbours, the Bonnie Dundee group, helping ‘potting up’ in our shared polytunnel at Duntrune Community Garden, Dawson Park, and with litter picks, for example.We also benefit from the SAMH group who now garden at Duntrune. There is support from Dundee City Council in various ways: •staff and advice •accomodation in polytunnels and library •a plentiful supply of their own Discovery Compost

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Assembling snowdrops for the Snowdrop-In plant sale in February 2015

An eucalyptus tree was blown down during the winter storms at The Barnhill Rock Garden, winter 2014/15.

Not so much an achievement, but a beautiful resource for the people of Broughty Ferry - The Sheill Street Nature Reserve. Even in winter it has something to offer. Similary in nearby Orchar Park with its Bowling Green and Football pitches.

The look of spring 2015 at the Barnhill planter.

Matthew and his carrot harvest at Queen Street Autumn 2014

the main sites we maintain are• The Old Boat, Fisher Street• The Eco Garden, Queen Street car park• The planters on Brook Street• The planter at Douglas Terrace• The planters at Windmill Street car park• The planter at Campfield Square, BarnhillWe also work in the polytunnel at the Duntrune Community Garden in Dawson Park and at The Barnhill Rock Garden.

During the winter there is a tidy up of the polytunnel and an effort to keep the litter down. Early this year many of us attended a Community Network Day held in the Hannah Maclure Centre which taught us new skills, kept up our enthusiasm and ‘networked’ with other groups.

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Planter at Douglas Terrace spring 2015

Working on one of the new planters in Brook Street. Local residents are very pleased to see the scheme extended.June 2015

Potting up in the polytunnel at Duntrune, May 2015.

Ready to go - the hanging baskets in Duntrune Community Garden, ready and waiting to be hung in Brook Street.

June 2015.

On the way to ‘plant out’June 2015.

Campfield Square, Barnhill, late summer planting 2014.

Windmill Car Park, one of the windiest spots in Broughty Ferry but important as it’s at the start of The Esplanade and access to the beach.

Brook Street is the main commercial thoroughfare in Broughty Ferry. It is therefore important that it’s an attractive shopping experience. To this end, in previous years we recieved a donation from the Broughty Ferry Traders Association.However, money raised last year by Balgillo Nursery has filled the gap. This year we have managed to afford more planters and hanging baskets to extend at both ends of the street.

The planters & hanging baskets in Brook Street

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Always an attraction for young and old, the Rock Garden pools, are full of tadpoles in the spring, providing loads of interest. The Rock Garden is one of the lovliest gardens in Broughty Ferry and regulary wins awards. At the moment it has a Green Flag and has been recently judged for 2015. It is also a popular venue for lots of events such as a location for wedding photographs, story readings for children, run by the library, birthday parties and rolling Easter eggs.

Green Flag Judges with volunteers and Dundee City Council staff at The Barnhill Rock Garden, June 2015

Grove Academy pupils have been helping plant up flower tubs at Waverley Sheltered Housing in Broughty Ferry.

There is a lot positive feedback when working at Campfield Square. It’s also a good place to hand out the newsletters. We have made friends with local groups who use the Community Centre and now have access to the noticeboard. This June we have reluctantly been pulling out spring flowers and replacing with a mixture of summer plants which have been begged, borowed and stolen from various sources. Opposite, we maintain an area to encourage biodiversity. June 2015.

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Campfield Square, Barnhill, Broughty Ferry

The Barnhill Rock Garden

Our entry at last year’s Dundee Flower & Food Festival (Silver Medal) Using the elements which make up our signature of Coastal Resort. The planting matched the hanging baskets and the tubs in Brook Street.

environmental responsiblity

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Marks & Spencer held not any old litter pick, but a Marks & Spencer’s organised one. Bonnie Dundee and some of our group took part in April this year.

Litter Picking seems to occur anytime during the year but particulary in the spring. This year there was a noticable reduction in the number of polythene bags probably due to the new law about charging for bags in shops.

This year we are supporting

Take Pride in Your City campaign organised by Dundee City Council and are hoping to get involved with their events and projects.

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Take Pride in Your Community

Litter Pick

Balgillo Road Area and

Sandy Park

Help clean-up your neighbourhood

Sunday the 21st of June

2pm – 4pm

Meet at Sandy Park / Balgillo Road

All Welcome

Litterpicks, gloves and bags provided

Nature Nutters spring 2015

Friends of The Barnhill Rock Garden - working party - having finished their annual clean up. April 2015.

McDonaldsalso held one in Broughty Ferry on June 8.

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Constructing a Bug Hotel in Queen Street (and sorting the door of the tool shed) Spring 2015

Wild flower meadow at Queen Street. Summer 2015

Clearing the Wild Flower meadow at Queen Street. Autumn 2014

The Eco Groupfrom Grove Academy are responsible for turning a scrubby patch of unwanted land into a wildlife corner. They recently have added a small pond to increase biodiversity. The group consist of mixed age pupils who are working towards maintaining their school’s green credentials. Grove Academy is an Eco school and already the group have won many awards.

Then there are the Nature Nutters..

The Nature Nutters are a group of active young environmentalists who meet monthly to work on environmental projects. This is their third year of helping to develop the Queen St Community Garden. This year they helped build a brilliant bug hotel for visiting beasties.

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Why Get Involved?

To encourage the community, including

individuals, citizens and businesses

to take pride and interest in Broughty

Ferry by making attractive use of

floral displays and attractive planting.

Sustaining the diversity of plants and

wildlife.

Who Can Enter?Open to all within the four Broughty

Ferry Council Wards, ie, Barnhill, Balgillo,

Broughty Ferry, West Ferry.

How To EnterFill in and return the application form

by Friday 17July 2015.

What Happens Next?

Judging for the Garden Competition

will take place within two weeks

of the closing date.

We will contact you to let you know

if you have won a prize.

Judging CriteriaThe independent judge will mark

against a set of standards.

Garden Competition

1 Front Garden or Entrance

2 Community Living Space, for example,

Council Tenants, Housing Association

Tenants, Care Homes or

Sheltered Housing

3 Display of Window Boxes

and/or Patio Planters

4 Business or Retail Premises

(excludes category No 5)

5 Public House, Hotel or Guest House

6 Places of Worship

7 New Entrant

PRIZESOverall WinnersLunch plus a Day Pass to the

Leisure Club for two people

at The Woodlands Hotel.

Section WinnersßCategory winners will receive

two ‘One-Day’ tickets to the

Dundee Flower & Food Festival 2015

4 - 6 September.

All entries will receive a Gold, Silver Gilt,

Silver or Bronze certificate.

Entry Form

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All entries to be returned to: Peter Sandwell, Environment Department, Dundee City Council,

3 City Square, Dundee DD1 3BA by Friday 17 July 2015

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The Snowdrop-Inhas become an annual event, a modest fund raiser and something to keep us going during the winter. This year we were able to hold it in the morning which seems to have brought in more customers. The idea behind the coffee morning is to try engage the community to look in their garden, even in winter, to discover that there is something going on. People are encouraged to bring snowdrops from their own gardens to see how many varieties there are. As usual there were snowdrops for sale, a snowdrop display and this year, a Guess the Weight of the Snowdrop Cake!

The Annual Garden Competitionhas proved popular over the years with new classes being added as needs demand. The application form is available to download from the web page or on the back of the Spring/Summer newsletter.There is always a presentation at the end of the summer with certificates and prizes awarded at our AGM. Some of the winners have also taken part in The Secret Garden Trail the following year.

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Another of our initiatives, The Secret Garden Trail, is now established as part of Broughty Ferry Gala Week. Every year new private gardens are opened to the public and in 2014 The Castle Green Bowling Club invited visitors in to their grounds for the first time. Although pushed for space they have brightened up the edges of the bowling green with all sorts of novel ways of growing plants. This event has also lead to an increased awareness of Broughty Ferry in Bloom and also the use of some extra pairs of hands when need be.

The Secret Garden Trail

137 Balgillo Rd

3a Forthill Drive Refreshments:

2 - 3:30 pm

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Gauldry Terrace

58Marlee Road

Abertay

Guest House

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Guest House

8 Leemount Lane

No parking in front of no. 7 please

88 Grove Road

Station Gardens

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Dolphin Bedding

Windmill Gardens

Barnhill

Rock Garden(Tea & Toilets)

from 2 - 4pmBroughtyLibrary

Menteith St.

Marlee Road

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One of our biggest struggles is the distribution of our newsletter. We now have

an agreement with Clementines greengrocer in Grey Street. We place their advert and they include the newsletters in their veggie boxes.We very rarely have been turned away when handing out the newsletters, most traders are happy to take a handful for their customers.

We are always much cheered when a trader makes an effort and enters into the spirit of things, in this case, the area beside The Ship in Jetty Lane was enhanced by this imaginative display.

After a lot of badgering by the Grove Academy Eco group, the council finally found a noticeboard and erected it on site at the Queen Street car park. This is a community noticeboard which can be used to display information about the Queen Street site, Grove Academy and events that support the local community.

It’s always a help when local businesses can water the planters. Khans supplied us this year when we were planting in Brook Street.

There has been a new development

this year at the Duntrune Community

Garden where we share polytunnel

facilities with the Beautiful Dundee

group. The on-site gardener has

moved to another post in the city

and the groups using the Garden are

working together to keep the facility

operational under the leadership of

SAMH members who work in the

garden. SAMH have access to funds

from various sources and as well as

assisting us from time-to-time they

have plans to improve the polytunnel

staging and watering system by the

end of August.Beatrice keeping the King Street

gardens in order. June 2015

The generous donation from Broughty Ferry Flower Club has meant that this year’s projects are secure. Sadly, our gain was at their demise as the group has folded. They also donated a crystal rose bowl which the group intend to use as an annual prize for the best garden. Over the years Broughty Ferry Flower Club had supported the In Bloom group with many things including the tending and watering of the plants at Broughty Ferry Station.

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Broughty Ferry Flower ClubFundingOver the years we have raised money in a number of different

ways – starting with plant sales (using plants we raised in our

own gardens) at local events such as the Annual Sea Festival

in Broughty Ferry and setting up our stall in Broughty Ferry’s

main shopping area. Later we were supported for a few years

by a local Church who donated half the profits from their Spring

Coffee Mornings each year. During 2014-2015 we raised just over

£200.00 at our annual Snowdrop-in; ScotRail paid us £616 to

cover the cost of plants used at Broughty Ferry Railway Station for

three years; the Broughty Ferry Flower Club which has just closed

gave us £1000 and we have been promised £600 by Friends of

the Barnhill Rock Garden as a gift to us to mark the Garden’s

60th Anniversary. Dundee City Council have provided most of our

planters along with compost when required.

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Our plans for the future include:

• Maintain and develop existing planters and hanging baskets

• Develop more contacts with younger people We have been asked to talk to the students of Dundee & Angus

College Arrangements are being made to meet the students

in the new term in August.

We have also been asked along to a

volunteering evening at Grove Academy

but due to our busy workload the same

week all we can do on this occasion,

is leave copies of our newsletter.

• Attract more volunteers See above

• Signs for the existing planters to give more publicity for Broughty Ferry in Bloom This is in hand, and may even happen before the end

of the summer.

• Continue to enhance the less appealing areas of Broughty Ferry

Reres HillPlans are in the early stages to improve the Victorian park at Reres Hill, which lies on the main road to Monifieth, depending on a WIAT (Woods In & Around Towns) application. If successful, it would allow:

• Increased appropriate usage of the woods both by ‘formal’ means e.g. Ranger and Education Services and by ‘informal’ users such as walkers and cyclists.

• Improved progress towards the position of continuous cover woodland for Dundee’s woods

• Increased public awareness of the flora and fauna of the woods

• Monitoring and control of vermin access to sensitive areas

• Increase the amenity, natural heritage and habitat value of Dundee’s woodlands

plans for the future

Grove Academy pupils repaint their floral boat.Summer 2015

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