St Mary’s thanks…
catherine August 26th, 2009
The Countryside Ranger Service at Hermitage of Braid gave us logs to edge the path in the wildlife garden.
North British Distillers gave us four half barrels to use as planters which they very kindly cut for us, drilled with drainage holes, and delivered too!
Very grateful thanks are due to Bill Stewart who very generously donated two trays of bedding plants which helped keep the containers in the school grounds looking colourful all through the winter and spring.
Freecycling folks in Edinburgh gave us a compost bin, flower pots and some fern seedlings, but especial thanks to Walter Dods, who went out and bought extra handtools which he donated to the school along with the ones he originally offered on freecycle, and gave us some sunflower seedlings too. Thank you Ellie for giving us some perspex sheets to mend the window on the shed! And a really big thank you to Sylvia for giving us a huge bag full of plants, box of plantpots, and bird feeders.
A local tree surgeon, John Lord of Lord of the Trees, delivered a truckload of free wood chippings which we used to surface our path.
We are extremely grateful to the Trustees of the Ernest Cook Trust for a grant to enable us to buy gardening and wildlife books and kits to build raised beds.
We are also very grateful to Action Earth for their grant of £50 towards the hire of a skip on our volunteering day on 1 May.
Our local Scotmid donated a bottle each of red and white wine to be used to raise funds for the garden. I have managed not to drink them.
A very big thank you goes to Patrick Fitzgerald and Chris Maltby for toiling over making the foundations and frame for our plastic bottle greenhouse.
Joachim Ehret and our temporary Janny helped put up the shed.
Fiona Fitzgerald and her colleague Brian Anderson from the post office very kindly collected another load of logs (ie, “a van full of trees”) for the path.
A massive thanks to Darren Stenhouse for breaking up all the tarmac in the vegetable bed.
Edinburgh Rotary Club most generously donated £350, to be used to buy some wee mushroom seats for the end of the wildlife garden.
A big thank you to John Renwick Roofing for very kindly donating the felt for the shed!
Thank you very much to B&Q at Easter Road, for a One Planet Living Award of £213 worth of materials for the garden. Details to follow!
Heartfelt thanks to the G&H Roberts Community Trust, for a grant of £250 which will enable us to buy quality topsoil for our raised vegetable beds.
Thank you to Christina and Michael Paulson-Ellis for donating a conifer, skimmia, red currant bush and sweet pea seedlings.
We are delighted to have just been awarded another CSV Action Earth grant of £50 to plant wild and wildlife friendly flowers in the wildlife border, and Dobbies are very generously giving us £60 of plants.
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