A kind, caring home this summer

Following our recent refurbishment, Murrayfield House care home is ready to welcome you with the kindest possible residential, nursing and dementia care.

Want to learn new skills or gain more confidence using your laptop, tablet or mobile phone?

Come along for a cuppa on Tuesday mornings with our tech savvy volunteers - no questions too big or small!

Book a session - 07580 659 676

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Situated in a peaceful suburb in Edinburgh, Murrayfield House offers luxury accommodation and facilities, including a popular ballroom, café, and a large courtyard garden, surrounded by acres of beautiful parkland.

If you would like to know more about Murrayfield House and the type of care we can provide, please contact one of our dedicated care advisors today.

Corstorphine and Murrayfield Community Policing Officers

PC Sam Davison

PC Susan Fulton

Please contact us at: EdinburghCPTNorthWest@scotland.pnn.police.uk Or Tel. 101

Officers attend or provide reports for both Corstorphine and Murrayfield Community Council meetings.

Police activity updates can also be seen on Twitter: Edinburgh Police North West @EdinPolNW

Please report crimes via 101 or 999 in an emergency.

What do we mean by exotic plants?

It’s not unusual for those who love gardens to yearn for something that looks tropical or exotic. These plants remind us of holidays and help with a contemporary feel.

Tropical gardens

Bold foliage and dazzling flower colours can create a lush, dramatic oasis. Tropical plants can be used to create a framework for your garden and the spaces between can be filled with plants that provide complementary shapes and colours. Grasses such as carex and miscanthus work well, as do large-leafed evergreens including Fatsia japonica and ferns. Hostas can pop up during spring and summer, together with shadedwelling brunneras, brightly-flowering crocosmia and day lilies in the sunnier areas. Japanese anemones are partial-shade lovers that fit in well for some late-summer flowers combined with interesting foliage.

It is possible to grow bananas (Musa) here in the UK, although they might need some winter protection. They can form huge statement plants up to three metres high and their tropical leaves can reach a length of two metres. It is rare for them to form fruit in the UK, but it is possible! Then there are the much- coveted tree ferns, Dicksonia antarctica, which are said to be some of the oldest plants in the world.

The iconic tropical forest trees are palms, such as Trachycarpus fortunei and wagnerianus, also known as windmill or chusan palms, Phoenix canariensis, the Canary Island date palm and Chamaerops humilis, the dwarf fan palm. These varieties have proved to be fairly hardy here in the UK, although they often sustain damage that needs to be tidied up in the spring. Go for a lush, full appearance and consider using bamboo to screen out the constraints of your boundaries. Clumping varieties including fargesias are easier to maintain, but use a root barrier to be sure your bamboo won’t invade further afield.

Desert gardens

It’s not easy to create a desert garden within a country with high rainfall. However, if you have a south-facing, sheltered site and you prepare the ground adequately, it is not impossible. Desertdwellers need very free-draining soil of almost pure grit or sand. Plants will be those that store water, such as cacti, agaves and aloes.

You can use desert as your inspiration and be inspired by the Sahara, Gobi and Kalahari, creating a garden that has the atmosphere of this unique type of ecosystem. Ornamental grasses are a must for the desert vibe, with their sandy-coloured seed heads and narrow leaves. Yuccas are well-adapted to desert life and you can include perennials such as salvias, cistus, sedum and creeping thyme. Drought-tolerant plants often have silvery foliage and fine hairs on the leaves that help them conserve moisture. You will definitely not see a lush lawn in a desert!

Murrayfield Community Council

(MCC) held its AGM and an Ordinary Meeting on 2 May 2023.

Please see the MCC website for the full Minutes of meetings.

www.murrayfieldcc.org.uk

Office bearers

The following office bearers were re-elected without a contest:-

Chair and Secretary - John Yellowlees

Vice Chair - Jim Forbes

Treasurer – Jim McDonaugh

Dave Dawson intimated his wish to resign as Social Engagement Secretary but, in the absence of a candidate to replace him, agreed to continue in the role informally meantime.

CCWEL works at Roseburn

It was reported that:-

• work on the Roseburn section of the CCWEL should be completed in a few weeks’ time. The outstanding work includes landscaping and surface repairs at Wester Coates, Balbirnie Place and the foot of Roseburn Cliff.

• the right turn into Russell Road has been restored and the new pedestrian crossings over Roseburn Terrace have been brought into operation.

• the existing planters on the Old Colt Bridge may be replaced by a single new planter at either end near the new street lights. A tree planter will be used to overcome the problem that a tree cannot be planted in the ground because of underground utilities.

• new lines will be added on the west side of Murrayfield Avenue to delineate parallel parking where vehicles used to park “end on”.

Future Meetings

Next Meeting: Tuesday, 27 June 2023 at 7:30 pm in Murrayfield Parish Church Upper Hall. Please see MCC’s website www.murrayfieldcc.org.uk for full Minutes of meetings.