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May 2017
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Bradley Stoke in Bloom April update By Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke in Bloom (BSiB)
Twinned roundabout
Winter may have been a quiet time for our ‘in bloom’ group, but it seems that spring is not! Spurred on by the Twinning Association visit by a party from Champs-sur-Marne, we bought forward our April workday so that we could include the group in our ‘French roundabout’ project. Well, that was the plan! However, there was a clash in their schedule meaning they weren’t about to help on the day. We couldn’t get a French skep (straw beehive) or a ‘twinned with…’ sign, but apart from that, the day went well! We chose Sherbournes Brake Roundabout (at the junction of Brook Way, Baileys Court Road and Orpheus Avenue) and have planted French lavender, campanula, penstemon, delphinium and phlox – only choosing plants that will have white or purple flowers. The centre piece is a rather English WBC beehive (named after William Broughton Carr). We know this, as a couple of members from Little Stoke Beekeepers’ Association stopped by and told us! But we did know some bee history that they didn’t: that Childeric the 1st was the first of the French monarchs to have used the bee as a symbol of ‘immortality and resurrection’! The hive is just for decoration;
as it has no base or combs, it isn’t a suitable home for any real bees. Our thanks must go to Almondsbury Garden Centre for donating the bedding plants and to the neighbours, Lula and Brain who bought us out cold drinks and have promised to water the plants for us. The popularity of this project and its use as a handy landmark has made us think that we should bring forward our plans for some of the other roundabouts in the town.
Welcome planters
Thank you to Melvin from Streetcare for rescuing our Aztec West Roundabout planter from the back of their site compound and for giving it a new base. To celebrate the rescue we named our Easter decoration sheep after him, but I’m hoping he’ll forgive us! The Hatchet Road planter was, of course, decorated with eggs and chicks and Rabbit Roundabout with rabbits. We were very saddened to receive messages telling us that the eggs and rabbits had all been stolen, so at midnight we snuck out and retrieved ‘Melvin’, as we didn’t want to lose him too. The large egg was returned after a few days, but sadly not the rabbits. We were asked to decorate the ‘Valentine tree’ (on Savages Wood Road) for St George’s Day, but we didn’t really want to take
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