Oswaldtwistle Hanging baskets

[firefighter753]

What an absolute disgrace and waste of money, As I walked the length of Union road today I noticed all the hanging baskets which Peter Britcliffe thought would brighten up our town and which we all paid for out of our taxes, are nearly all dead. Instead of being at there full bloom at this time of year they are all shrivelled up and brown and there are dozens of them. This council is turning our town into a laughing stock. YOU HAVE TO WATER THEM AS WELL PETER. I wonder how much they cost to put up, one or two people have watered there own, good on them, but they shouldn't need to. Peter have a look at Blackburns Baskets - they water theirs.

[entwisi]

On the other hand, I noticed some green leaves on the new trees on broadway, perhaps they aren't all dead after all

[garinda]

It is a waste of money.

Probably seemed a good idea just before the election.

I already started a thread about what I thought of these dead blooms.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...hlight=bloomin (Bloomin' money.)

[Neil]

Gary if you had taken me up on my offer of a lift to the Area Council meeting you would have heard that the dead ones are the winter ones and the summer ones are due to go up soon. You would also have learnt what the new summer ones cost. It looks a little late to me for summer ones going up ( says me with a dead winter one still hanging next to the front door )

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Neil

Gary if you had taken me up on my offer of a lift to the Area Council meeting you would have heard that the dead ones are the winter ones and the summer ones are due to go up soon. You would also have learnt what the new summer ones cost. It looks a little late to me for summer ones going up ( says me with a dead winter one still hanging next to the front door )

How do you know I wasn't there?

I said in my original thread I know they were 'winter hanging baskets'.

My own has been out since the first of May, and looks fantastic, thanks to watering twice a day and a weekly feed.

Good luck to the Ossy ones, which will suffer even more than the winter ones from lack of water. Even if it rains they need water every day.

[Gayle]

Originally Posted by Neil

Gary if you had taken me up on my offer of a lift to the Area Council meeting you would have heard that the dead ones are the winter ones and the summer ones are due to go up soon. You would also have learnt what the new summer ones cost. It looks a little late to me for summer ones going up ( says me with a dead winter one still hanging next to the front door )

Wasn't the idea that the bulbs for summer were planted under the winter ones so that when the winter ones died off the summer ones started pushing through so that new ones didn't have to go up? Didn't we get told that this would save money by only having to be hung once? So, am I right in understanding that the winter ones are being replaced with summer ones because the plan didn't work?

In all fairness to Britcliffe on this one, my understanding was also that the council would do this and place them outside shops that wanted one on the understanding that the shop keepers themselves would take some responsibility for caring for them.

So six of one and half dozen of the other on this one!

[WillowTheWhisp]

I thought the shopkeepers were asked to look after them and keep them watered. Wasn't it optional for them to have one?

[Neil]

Originally Posted by garinda

How do you know I wasn't there?

Because from where I was sat I could see everyone. You were not there.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Neil

Because from where I was sat I could see everyone. You were not there.

They seek him here, they seek him there, that effin' Rindy's died his hair.



In answer top Gayle, the bulbs were meant to come up in the spring, after the winter flowering plants had died. They were never intended to last until the summer.

My Ma told Peter when offered a hanging basket that she didn't have the inclination to go out everyday, after carrying the steps outside, to water a basket that would have to be high enough to deter the vandals. Especially when she'd been rolling out teacakes since six am, when Peter was still tucked up under his duvet.

Other towns/cities have hanging baskets that are watered by council workers. Perhaps less baskets and someone to care for them would give us a better chance in the Britain in Bloom competition next year.

[garinda]

I had a thought in the middle of the night!

The baskets could be planted up with things that would survive on rain water alone. Things like house leeks, sedums, alpines, even some ivies. There are lots of flowering sedums which would grow down a hanging basket beautifully all year round with no care needed.

Initially it would be slightly more expensive than using bedding plants, but they would care for themselves, green up Union Road, and look much better than rows of dead hanging baskets merrily swinging in the breeze.