Recycling Hanging Baskets 2019

Every Summer, Oxton village is adorned with beautiful hanging baskets of flowers.  These are planted up and cared for by Dovecote Nursery of Station Road, Burton, until they go up in the village at the beginning of June.  This year, Oxton village won a gold from the RHS Britain in Bloom Awards in the village category. 


Since the Friends have created composting bays at the top of the long border, we have started to empty these baskets in early November.  Despite some of their contents still flowering, Christmas is just around the corner  and soon it will be the annual switching on of the Christmas lights.








On Saturday 9th November, some members of the Oxton Society brought along all the baskets.  Many of our Committee members, along with extra volunteers, worked to sort and empty the baskets into our compost heaps.  Apart from the moss lining, all is added to the heaps to rot down for future use in the Rose Garden.

 

The wire baskets can then be returned to Dovecote Nursery to be reused for next year's display. This is a wonderful way for us to recycle so that everyone benefits.  During the year the Friends have been using a rotary seive to create perfect compost, which we use when we are planting perennials and shrubs around the Rose Garden, or potting up plants for sale to raise funds for the Friends group.






Thank you to everyone who turned out on Saturday.  It was a fantastic team effort.