29/05/2026
🌸Floral Friday🌸
This week the outdoor team have been busy planting the flower beds at the junction of Field Lane and the front bed in the Memorial Gardens. As planned, many of the perennial plants survived from last year so these have been added to. This is great for the environment and follows our Peat-Free and & Wildlife Friendly Plan.
Field Lane flower bed has our iconic water wheel in place with 10 half baskets attached to it. These are planted up with fuchsia, calibrachoa, petunias, lysimachia, Verbena and pelargonium for a great display and a variety of colour. The water wheel itself is planted up with trailing lobelia, dichondra and blue ageratum to represent water flowing over the wheel.
The bed has Belper 250 designed in cineraria as part of the year long celebrations. Filled around the cineraria are begonias to make the Belper 250 stand out. The rest of the bed is a mixture of different perennials including coreopsis, heuchera, galliardia, echinacea, rudbeckia, verbena, gaura, ipomoea and geum koi.
The front bed in the Memorial Gardens is a fully planted perennial bed. Mixed colours of fFigaro dahlias are planted down from the barrels to the front, then the rest of the bed is planted with other perennials including echinacea, pennisetum alopecuroides, helenium hayday, coreopsis, heuchera, geum koi, galliardias and sedums.
