Essentially Local Magazine MAR-APR 2019
Essentially Local is delivered through the doors of over 12,500 homes and businesses from Milton Keynes through all the villages and up as far as Towcester. You can also pick up copies from various places around the area. It provides a comprehensive directory of local businesses, useful and interesting information and places to go. Join the community and keep your business essentially local.
Essentially Local is delivered through the doors of over 12,500 homes and businesses from Milton Keynes through all the villages and up as far as Towcester. You can also pick up copies from various places around the area. It provides a comprehensive directory of local businesses, useful and interesting information and places to go. Join the community and keep your business essentially local.
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Spring Gardens<br />
As the days get lighter and the air warmer you can begin to prepare your<br />
garden for summer. Take a look at the lovely work carried out by the local in<br />
Bloom Teams to get some ideas and perhaps you could give them a hand too!<br />
WOOD YOU CARE?<br />
Prevent your fences and gates from rotting by<br />
following these steps:<br />
• Check for wood rot and rusted hinges<br />
• Remove plant debris from the base of the fence<br />
• Power wash with a stiff brush to remove dirt, moss etc<br />
from the panels<br />
• Dry and then paint with preservative/wood paint like these<br />
Sadolin products from Linnell Bros.<br />
TOP TIP<br />
Work on one small<br />
project at a time<br />
and finish it<br />
PUTTING IN A NEW FENCE<br />
• Use pressure-treated timber, treated with a<br />
wood preservative.<br />
• Use metal or concrete posts with gravel to<br />
help water to drain.<br />
• Cut the top of the fence posts at a slight<br />
angle to allow rain to run off.<br />
For advice about<br />
purchasing,<br />
installing or<br />
maintaining your<br />
fences speak to<br />
Linnell Bros on<br />
01327 354422<br />
linnellbros.co.uk<br />
STONY STRATFORD IN BLOOM<br />
In between the rain, frost and snow, Stony in Bloom volunteers<br />
have tidied beds and planted new shrubs. They created a new<br />
flower bed on the Ousebank - Calverton corner, kindly sponsored<br />
by Jean Barrington in memory of her husband. The new Fullers<br />
Slade bed was widened to give an even more spectacular<br />
expanse of colourful flowers and shrubs.<br />
Mary Robinson and Robin Nichol along with sponsor in kind,<br />
Dominic Harris, extended the path across the end of the wildlife<br />
pond at the North end of the High Street. Children can now enjoy<br />
exploring wildlife.<br />
DIARY DATES<br />
March - Growing Flowers for<br />
Cutting Talk by Theresa Wedderburn,<br />
Stony Stratford Library<br />
20 April - Riverside Group, SSIB<br />
volunteers and Parks Trust Junior<br />
Rangers to plant primroses and<br />
cowslips in the Nectar Garden, Mill Fill.<br />
27 April - Plant sale with the York<br />
House Coffee morning. Children will<br />
plant up the sharing bed; bards and<br />
thespians to perform. The Town Crier<br />
will let everyone know.<br />
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