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introduction
We have been described in the press as ‘a small each bringing different skills and experience to the
group of volunteers who run gardening projects group. The Barnhill Rock gardeners are a vital resource
in the town’ We started in 2008, Broughty Ferry for Broughty in Bloom, as is their Garden, and where
in Bloom with a few enthusiastic gardeners. By would we be without our friends, The Bonnie Dundee
2016 we now have a core of 15 members. Last group? They help us on occasions at Duntrune
year we retained our Silver Gilt Medal in the Community Garden, with litter picks, and help ‘man’
Coastal Resort Category, having only slipped The Secret Garden Trail.
into Silver once since forming. We produce a newsletter twice a year which is
Originally a fishing village with a ferry to Fife, distributed throughout the area by various means.
Broughty Ferry has been a suburb of Dundee There is support from Dundee City Council in various
since early last century. Barnhill is an area ways:
within Broughty Ferry and is the home of the •staff and advice
Rock Garden. •accomodation in polytunnels and library
The group meet on the second Tuesday •a plentiful supply of their Discovery Compost
evening of every month at Broughty Ferry
Library - all wecome! There is an overlap with We also benefit from the SAMH group who now garden
members belonging to other organisations at Duntrune Community Garden in Dawson Park.
www.dundeecity.gov.uk/dundeebloom 1
the main sites horticultural achievement
we look after are:
• The Old Boat, Fisher Street Every month during the year we
meet in Broughty Ferry Library,
• Broughty Ferry Station anyone can attend. We have a
polytunnel in Dawson Park and this
• The Eco Garden, Queen Street we share with SAMH, who have
car park taken over running The Duntrune
Community Garden. Winter for us
• The planters on Brook Street is all about tidying up and making
plans for the coming spring and Beatrice, one of our members tidies
up at St Stephen’s and West church
• The planter at Douglas Terrace summer. Our ‘Snowdrop-In’ in Autumn planting at the boat, October ‘15 grounds despite the cold in March ‘16.
February is intended to encourage
• The planters at Windmill Street people to brave the winter weather
car park and look and see if they have any
snowdrops and if so, what kind? It
• The planter at Campfield Square, has also become a popular social
Barnhill event in our area.
We also work in the polytunnel at We were ‘snowed under’ with entries in the
the Duntrune Community Garden Snowdrop In this February. The Rock Garden was part of the
in Dawson Park and at The Snowdrop Festival this year.
Barnhill Rock Garden. Spring display 2016 at the Barnhill planter.
Two ‘It’s Your Neighbourhood’
groups have registered - Friends
of the Barnhill Rock Garden and
Queen Street Community Garden.
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Spring planting in Brook Street. 2
horticultural achievement
The planters &
hanging baskets in Brook Street The old boat
One of the first projects we had
was the old boat beached next
to the famous Lifeboat Station.
Until this year we have planted
it with summer bedding or
winter pansies and spring
Last year we had extra bulbs. It’s had an overhaul
baskets planted up so we
placed them outside the and this year there is a more
library. They proved poular We are continuing with the ‘Tasty Space’ naturalistic look with it’s sea
with both staff and public bed at the library planting it up with holly, grasses and thrift. Stones
so we replanted over polinators, herbs and some vegetables.
winter and now a summer This is a very recent photograph with one
from the nearby beach have
arrangement is on it’s way. of the Gala Week Scarecrows. bulked up the landscaping.
The team filling the hanging baskets in our polytunnel, early June 2016
Oor Wullie surplanted
oor planter. We were
Brook Street is the main commercial surprised to discover
thoroughfare in Broughty Ferry. It that our newly
is therefore important that it’s an planted tub had been
moved across the
attractive shopping experience. We road to accomodate
continue to concentrate our planting this Scottish comic
efforts here. To this end, in previous character! He is part
of a ‘Bucket Trail’
Broughty Ferry Station
years we recieved a donation
throughout the city this
from the Broughty Ferry Traders summer.
Association.
Money raised two years ago by the
Balgillo Nurseries has meant that
we have managed to afford more
planters and hanging baskets (32 in
total) to extend at both ends of the
street. Hard at work on the tubs at Broughty Ferry Station
June ‘16
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horticultural achievement
The Balgillo Nurseries The Barnhill Rock Garden
Balgillo Nursery and Balgillo Too
bring on the next generation of
gardeners. (see photograph)
They help in litter picks
sometimes holding their own
in the grassy area next to the
nursery. They make cakes for
our fundraisers and help out at
events.
Even this
February The
Campfield
Barnhill Rock
Garden was
Square, Barnhill,
worth a visit.
Always an attraction for young and old, this former golf
Broughty Ferry course was transformed into the Rock Garden last century
by the council. It is now run by a partnership between a
strong vounteer group, Friends of Barnhill Rock Garden and a
Our planter at the Barnhill shops continues dedicated council gardener, Michael Laird. It includes a water
to please passers by which is our aim of feature made from a former spring and the pools are full of
‘Greening up the Grey’ in the hard 60’s - tadpoles in the spring, providing loads of interest. The Rock
70’s shopping precinct. Opposite this we Garden is one of the lovliest gardens in Broughty Ferry and
have established an area of planting which regulary wins awards. At the moment it has a Green Flag and
encourages wildlife, absorbs the bad gases has been recently judged for 2016. It is also a popular venue for
and fumes from passing traffic and gives lots of events such as a location for wedding photographs, story
pleasure to everyone with its seasonal readings for children (run by the library), birthday parties and
interest. This is outside the Community
rolling Easter eggs. Every other year it hosts ‘Gala in the Garden’
Centre so there are donated snowdrops
which despite rain at times, has always been well supported by
planted especially for flowering when we hold
locals and holidaymakers alike. There is a programme of Brass
the Snowdrop In.
Band Concerts held in the garden throughout the summer.
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environmental responsiblity
Litter Picking is
Springwatch ‘two minute
addictive as anyone who has been on
Beach Clean’ 2016
one will tell you. Children especially
are always keen to be involved and
its sometimes difficult to get them to
The Great British stop. This works for us for as can be
Beach Clean seen in the pics we have a lot of child
labour. We had the Balgillo Nurseries,
In October of last year Grove
Academy pupils volunteered to
the Cub Scouts, and Grove Academy Help n
eeded
pupils and many other volunteers to with ou
clean up the beach by the Lifeboat Beach r
Clean-
shelter in Broughty Ferry as part of help on the spring litter picks. We tried this Sa
turday Up
23 Apr mornin
this important national campaign. to pick up even the smallest piece of il 2 g
Balgillo Too Nursery spring 2016 from 1 016
They completed a survey of the plastic knowing how detrimental it is 0am
litter they found which has been to wildlife and ultimately to ourselves. Meet a
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the Brid the car park
sent to the Marine Conservation Since August 2015 - 4 clean up/litter
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The Es eet end of
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pick events registered with Clean Up gloves
and to
Scotland and a few more happened will be
provid
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ed
that were not registered.
Friends of The Barnhill Rock Garden - working party doing the Spring
Clean-Up, and local Cubs when they finished theirs. April 2016.
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environmental responsiblity
The Eco Group
from Grove Academy are responsible for turning
a scrubby patch of unwanted land into a wildlife
corner. Last year they added a small pond to
increase biodiversity This year, the group have
secured funding through ‘Grow Wild Youth’ for
a Mythical Meadow. The group consist of mixed
The nursery children from nearby join in the age pupils who are working towards maintaining
project and have helped by planted sunflowers their school’s green credentials. Grove Academy
and watering. is an Eco school and
already the group have
won many awards.
The Pansy/Poppy horse
by Sofia Calmeiro-Arguello.
The The plants from the nursery bed were planted in the Wild Flower
Nature meadow at Queen Street. June 2016
Nutters
Green Dog
are a group of active young environmentalists who
meet monthly to work on environmental projects. This is
Campaign
This spring saw the start of another Grove their forth year of helping to develop the Queen Street
initative, The Shiell Street Project, organised Community Garden. They were behind the gabion build
by their teacher and BFIB member, Mary and bulb planting and willow gates. Here they are busy Broughty Ferry will soon have its
Holligan. The area access had been very own Green Dog Campaign.
painting breeze blocks and filling the gabions.
improved by a new tarmac path and was At the moment we have a Green
ideal for the ‘Grow Wild Youth Project’ (see Dog Walker ‘champion’ pulling
growwilduk.com for more info). A lot of at her lease, ready to start and
research went into finding out who owned encourage resposible dog
the land before they could start. Eventually, ownership. All we need now is
they were successful in both permission and the specially branded armbands
their funding application. Shiell Street, already leaflets etc.
known as Broughty Ferry’s nature reserve is situated between
the railway bridge and the road to Monifieth.
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with new classes being added as ‘A Week Pass to the Leisure Club’,
needs demand. The application for Overall Winners. Tickets to the
The Secret Garden Trail, is form is available to download from Dundee Flower & Food Festival are
another of our increasingly popular the web page or on the back of the awarded to the category winners.
community events. Every year we Spring/Summer newsletter. Some of the winners have also
cajole Broughty residents to open The presentation is held at the end taken part in The Secret Garden
their gardens for an afternoon of the summer with certificates and Trail the following year.
prizes awarded. The Woodlands
The Snowdrop-In during Broughty Ferry Gala Week.
Every year it just gets bigger and The ‘Overall
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Peter Gilmour one of the keen gardeners
of Barnhill Bowling Club.
awards at The
Woodlands Hotel, 7
main sponsor of
the competition.
New community
space behind the community engagement
YMCA
The Scarecrow
Challenge is on its first year.
Organised by Grove Academy’s
Eco Group leader and Broughty
Ferry in Bloom member, Mary
Holligan, it will take place during
Broughty Ferry Gala Week for the
Gala in the Garden first time. Already there has been
Broughty Ferry in Bloom was asked a huge response from schools
to take a stall in the Barnhill Rock nurseries and individuals to put a
Garden’s 60th Birthday Celebrations scarecrow in their grounds.
in late July last year. Grove Academy pupils are involved
At first we weren’t sure if we should in all sorts of ‘green’ activities and
sell plants or just raise awareness this spring saw them helping out
of our group. In the end we did at the new community space and
both, which helped with our funds. raised beds behind the YMCA. They
We had ready made-up window painted a mural which brightens up
the area.
boxes which sold right away and
The YMCA have always supported
also some old handbags stuffed
our group and now we are hoping
with plants, We were amazed at just to be involved with their gardening Since the cut-backs within Dundee
how well those sold! presumably schemes in the future. City Council there is no longer a
because customers could carry dedicated gardener in Duntrune
them over their arms. Community Garden. The groups
using are working together to keep
the facility operational under the
leadership of SAMH members
who work in the garden. SAMH
have access to funds from various
sources and as well as assisting
us from time-to-time they improved
the polytunnel staging and watering
system which frees up our time and
makes it easier to work in.
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finance
Funding
As promised we received a cheque from the Friends of the Barnhill Rock The Woodlands Hotel continue to provide a very generous gift for the
Garden for £600 as part of their 60th Birthday celebrations last year and overall winner of our Gardening Competition – this year Dinner for two and a
during the past 12 months our income has been boosted by our annual Week’s Pass to their Leisure Club.
Snowdrop-in in February when we raised almost £340 as a result of our There are other ways in which we get by - not necessary with money, eg
best turnout to date. Once again we were helped by pupils from The we have an arrangement with Clementines the greengrocers in Gray Street.
Grove Academy and the two Balgillo Nursery Schools. We are currently We run their advert in our newsletter and they distribute them through their
awaiting a payment from the railway company to help towards our planting veggie box deliveries and in their shop.
costs at the Broughty Ferry station and hope to raise more money with a We have sufficient funds available to see us through another 12 months and
plant stall at the Duntrune Community Garden Gala in the Garden in July. will continue to look for new ways to fund our efforts
The Council continue to provide us with compost as and when required
and purchase plants on our behalf passing on the benefit they receive from
bulk ordering. They also repaint and repair the various planters they have
provided for us, as and when needed.
Under the umbrella of Broughty Ferry in Bloom the Grove Academy
obtained funding totalling £1000 through “Grow Wild Youth” for two of their
projects – Sheill Street and Queen Street Car Park.
Mary Saunders, Vice Chairperson, Stan Nutt,
Chairperson and Liz Taylor, Local Resident
recieve Broughty Ferry in Blooms Silver Gilt
Award in Perth 2015
Scarecrow in the Tasty Space July 2016
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plans for the future
Our plans for the future include:
• Maintain and develop existing planters
and hanging baskets
• Develop more contacts with younger people
This year a new bunch of nursery nurses joined from The Nature Nutters after
The Balgillo Nurseries bringing with them not only their young working at Queen Street
charges but their own enthusiasm. We would like to keep them on a bitter January day
engaged in our projects.
• Ensure that the Green Dog Campaign is a success
• Attract more volunteers
We have been lucky to have found a new Minute Secretary in
Joan Chalmers and Treasurer Heather Dailly this year. Local
resident Sean Moore and Alison Scott have also joined.
• Funding
The annual question, fotunately something always turns up but
we will have to make more definite plans to address this.
• Continue to enhance the less appealing areas Broughty Ferry in Bloom member. Sean admires the Dawson Park cherry
of Broughty Ferry blossom after a hard mornings work in the polytunnel.
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