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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
perhaps we don't need to buy force-grown bedding of a certain colour that only flowers for two weeks at the right time, perhaps there is room for economy in the 450+ hanging baskets that all need to be watered daily or the flower towers that cost the borough £47,000 per year. Perhaps if Area Councils had been reviewed earlier then the £240,000+ per year that it is said it costs to administer them could have been diverted into actually improving the borough rather than fancy calendars and expensive meetings that few residents turn up to.
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Going back to the borough's planting costs, and in reference to the flower beds in Church Street, near St. James Church.
March/April - A beautiful display of hyacinths.
May - These bulbs were replaced by hundreds of pansies.
June - Whilst the pansies were in full flower, and looking fantastic, they were all dug up and replaced by the present dahlias.
I don't know who is responsible, but only a fool, or a lottery winner, would go to the expense of planting two consequtive lots of summer bedding plants.
Certainly man hours, and plant cost savings could be made here, in just this one example.