Moseley in Bloom

Blooming Gardeners’ Question Time with Stefan Buczacki

A special Moseley Festival edition of Gardeners’ Question Time chaired by none other than Professor Stefan Buczacki featuring some of Moseley’s most gifted professional gardening guru’s: Jonanthan Sandilands, Glenn Fraser and Barbara Taylor.

This one off edition takes pace at 7.30 on 2nd July at St Columba’s Church Hall (on the corner of Alcester Road and Chantry Road). Read the rest of this entry »

Just Days To Go For Moseley In Bloom Open Gardens 2009

Open Gardens 2009 Saturday Leaflet (PDF)

Open Gardens 2009 Sunday Leaflet (PDF)

With only a few days to go, Moseley in Bloom are making the final preperations alongside keen Gardeners for the Moseley Open Gardens Weekend which takes place this Saturday and Sunday.  Read the rest of this entry »

Moseley in Bloom Open Gardens 2009 Preview

The wait is almost over, the time is nearly here.  Moseley opens its gardens again in few weeks’ time – the weekend of 20th and 21st June to be precise.  This will be the third year of opening a range of gardens in Moseley and the past two years have been a fantastic success.  In 2007 we had around 600 visitors who came wandering through the streets of the Village to see thirty gardens large and small, new and mature.  Last year we had over 800 visitors, and raised a significant sum for the Moseley in Bloom public displays and the event was our biggest single fund-raiser.

This year we want to do even better. Read the rest of this entry »

Meteoric Makeover starts to Materialise…

The Meteoric Makeover, organised by Moseley in Bloom, completed its first phase of the project this weekend (15th, 16th & 17th May) by ensuring that the beds outside the perimeter are fit for the foliage and flowers to flourish in the summer.

Volunteers appeared in their abundance at the Bristol Street Motor’s site on St Mary’s Row on both Saturday and Sunday to ensure that the project got off to a good start. We also had volunteers on Friday to hand to help dig through and load compost which Four Season Nursery donated – ready for use over the weekend. Read the rest of this entry »

Moseley in Bloom Open Gardens Weekend 2009

Open gardens weekend – 20th and 21st June

Don’t Miss Moseley Uncovered!
Ideas and Inspiration from the planting colour and design of more of Moseley’s best kept secrets

Saturday 20th June – South side of Alcester Road in North Moseley and around the Moseley Triangle

Sunday 21st June – North side of Alcester Road around Chantry Road, the Park and Reddings Road

HOME GROWN PLANTS APPEAL – Let us sell your surpluss plants at Open Gardens Weekend! Contact 07967 636 958. Read the rest of this entry »

Meteoric Makeover Volunteers Appeal – 16th & 17th May

While a planning application for this former car showroom site is currently under consideration, any future development is uncertain until planning permission is granted. It may therefore be some time before any work starts at this site. Having already laid empty for over a year, the grass and weeds have grown and the frontage now sports a look which is at best forlorn and at worst an eyesore. And that look is ‘so last season’.

Fortunately the site developers (Exmax Moseley) agree, and have given permission for the raised bed and perimeter fencing to be planted up with a dense tropical screen of green foliage and summer flowering annuals and climbers. Read the rest of this entry »

Moseley in Bloom Launches 2009 Campaign

It’s daffodil time in Moseley: as Wordsworth might have observed, “Beside the pubs, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze” – and there are more and more daffodils planted each year by the volunteers from Moseley in Bloom. 

However Moseley is officially bursting into bloom this Saturday March 28^th at the Farmers’ Market from 9 am.  Bloomers will be on parade at a new springtime plant stall laden with potted bulbs in bud and in bloom, narcissi, tulips and anemones – ready for planting out: so if you missed out last autumn you could cheat a bit and catch up now with some instant spring colour for your garden. Read the rest of this entry »