2022 saw a new planting policy for the 40 Community Council planters. This year the planters are all full of perennial plants, many of which are “plants for pollinators” Since the Council purchased the planters over 10 years ago they have been planted each spring with annual bedding plants. It is hoped that the perennials will come back bigger and better each year and reduce the expenditure on new plants.
Unfortunately some of the planters have already experience vandalism with people, either stealing the plants are just seeming to think it is fun to break the taller stems or throw the plants around the ground. This is a problem we experience every year – hopefully as the plants become more established and large the temptation to pull them out will diminish.