Blairgowrie & Rattray Hub Magazine Summer 2023
The Summer 2023 edition of the Blairgowrie & Rattray Hub Magazine. The latest news and articles from community groups and the public.
The Summer 2023 edition of the Blairgowrie & Rattray Hub Magazine. The latest news and articles from community groups and the public.
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The busy bees at Blair in Bloom have been<br />
buzzing around these past couple of months<br />
and hopefully that is reflected in the town’s<br />
beds and borders.<br />
The Bus Stance in particular has been a riot of<br />
colour this Spring with the multi coloured tulips<br />
brightening up many a grey day for travellers.<br />
The Wellmeadow too was very colourful with<br />
lots of daffodils putting on a show. Coronation<br />
Corner was tidied up in readiness for a small<br />
celebration for the Coronation on Monday 8th<br />
May where a plant sale took place.<br />
Our big project has been the large bed at<br />
Ardblair which has now been dug out, cultivated<br />
and dug over ready for paths to be laid. All the<br />
plants have been delivered and are ready to go<br />
in hopefully before this article goes to print. It<br />
has been decided to concentrate on the large<br />
bed just now and although the smaller bed will<br />
be maintained as usual, work on replanting will<br />
be postponed meantime.<br />
2500 plug plants are due to be delivered this<br />
week in readiness for planting in the hanging<br />
baskets. After delivery they will be left for a<br />
few days to settle and then everyone available<br />
is involved in planting up the baskets. Once<br />
planted they are tended to in one of the large<br />
polytunnels at The <strong>Rattray</strong> Community Garden<br />
until June when the baskets are hung around<br />
the Town. A mammoth task but one that is<br />
undertaken every year and is a well practiced<br />
routine. (We hope).<br />
We are delighted to welcome a few new<br />
volunteers and as always, thank all the<br />
volunteers for their time and effort. We couldn’t<br />
do it without them. Any one interested in joining<br />
us please contact us at blairinbloom@aol.com.<br />
We also have a shiny new website which we are<br />
finding our way around and hopefully In the<br />
future you will be able to see events planned and<br />
general updates as well as minutes of committee<br />
meetings at<br />
info@blairgowrieandrattrayinbloom.org.uk<br />
Our Annual Plant Sale is planned for Saturday<br />
June 3rd at Castle Water Ground at Tesco from<br />
10.00am. More on this on the website and<br />
posters around town nearer the time.<br />
We are sorry to report we have lost another<br />
Committee Member due to personal reasons<br />
and we also have to report the very sad news<br />
that our Chairperson, Mary Birch, has been<br />
diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. Mary,<br />
who has been Chair of Blair in Bloom for many<br />
years has obviously had to hand over some<br />
of her responsibilities as Chair Person but is<br />
overseeing the day to day running of Blair in<br />
Bloom from home. Our very best wishes go to<br />
Mary and family.<br />
COMMUNITY<br />
ENGAGEMENT<br />
<strong>Blairgowrie</strong> and <strong>Rattray</strong> Development<br />
Trust’s work is led by the community<br />
for the community.<br />
Our team works with local people,<br />
community groups, businesses and<br />
the local authority – as well as national<br />
organisations and funding bodies - to help create a thriving and attractive town, with a strong<br />
sense of community and identity, that appeals to those who live, work and visit the area.<br />
Since the last edition of the <strong>Hub</strong> magazine, we have coordinated and promoted a community<br />
family picnic in Davie Park, and a volunteer day as part of the UK-wide Big Help Out programme of<br />
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