Wexford Tidy Towns have had a great month seeing Wexford being one of three communities awarded the first ‘Greening Community Flag’ Award. Wexford Tidy Towns also got involved in the National Spring Clean taking place Nationwide this month planting, painting, weeding, sweeping and cleaning several spots in Wexford Town. As part of this we created and updated several flowerbeds across Wexford Town including sites at Carcur and Kerlogue. Thank you to Beechdale for supplying the flowers and advice for these fantastic flowerbeds which really enhance our towns. They are always a pleasure to work with on our projects with Wexford Tidy Towns and also with the work they do with Wexford in Bloom.
Our first Action Day was on the 8th of April to prepare for our first big planting day on the 11th which saw us have two groups our at Carcur and Kerlogue to start planting up the new beds. On Saturday 18th we completed the rose bed at Kerlogue, painted the barrier behind it and refitted some of the bars on the barrier. These beds are now complete for the season and soon the roses should begin to appear. Another bed on the Rosslare road was replanted and tidied up on Wednesday 15th and the first flowers of the season have just appeared there. Preparatory work was also completed for another planting bed on this road which we hope to have in place by early May. Next Saturday 25th we will be doing planting at the Marian Shrine on the same section of road which should really freshen up its appearance. Anyone who would like to help us with this planting please come along at 10.00am on Saturday 25th, all equipment and hi-vis jackets will be provided. Putting in plants is very satisfactory work especially when you see the flowers a few short weeks afterwards.
Thank you to everyone who came along to any of the Action days you have done some amazing work. It was great to see a few new faces too but we need to get more people on board if we are going to maximise the effect we can have on the town. So please consider coming along to one of our meet ups the next one is Saturday 25th April.