Category: Pilton

Wildflower Planting in East Pilton Park this Saturday 10.30-1 (11th October) with Granton Community Gardeners. Free, family friendly activity.

Join us to add wildflower seeds and spring bulbs to the long grass patches of East Pilton Park (around the new tree plantings).

As well as looking beautiful, we hope to improve the area for pollinators and also increase the number of invertebrates (insects and other wee bugs) for our local birds to eat.

We are particularly hoping to help increase the food supply for our nearby swift colony and this project goes hand in hand with plans we have to give the swifts more good local nesting sites by adding swift boxes to buildings.

Amazingly, the council’s ecologists have found that long grass areas can have as much as 90 times more life than short grass. Let’s add flowers to make them even better!

Please get in touch if you’re planning to come so we can bring a sensible number of tools: email katie@grantoncommunitygardeners.org

(Also dress for the weather, and bear in mind that the closest public toilets are in Ainsley Park Leisure Centre).

You can also check out more about our ‘Nature in Granton’ project via new page on our website:

https://www.grantoncommunitygardeners.org/nature-in-granton