COMMUNITY PLANTING EVENT
On Saturday 17th June supported by our good friends ‘Purley In Bloom’ we held a planting event in the area of the High street that we were transforming. The area is a large forecourt outside a disused Sainsburys site and the closed Leisure Centre and until recently had been used as an illegal car park.
Work had begun the previous week on making this space an area for the whole community, cleaning and installing art work on both walls and floors and complimenting the art by adding some large galvanised planters in bright pink and yellow.
The planting event was advertised on our social media pages and open to all, Purley In Bloom ran the event and had done the prep work and chosen the plants for us. We met at 10.30am and with many hands making light work, we soon managed to fill all the planters in no time.
We scheduled our event to coincide with ‘The Great Big Green Week’, which is a week-long celebration of taking, action against climate change and protecting nature. The bees wasted no times enjoying our new plants and were soon buzzing about.
To top off a lovely morning the Fire Brigade then arrived to give all our new plants a good watering, thanks to Catherine at the BID for asking them along. This was also a real treat for some of the children in attendance, being up so close to a Fire Engine.
A really wonderful community event to make a positive change to a previously very drab area and bring some greenery to the High street.
