Nice one Garden girl, having just moved into a new house in Wales and have taken on an allotment from scratch time prevents us from helping or starting a station venture, but we have moved from Falmouth and a couple of stations there were just suphered one has a large wooden noddy type of train for the kids brightly painted and full of colourfull flowers and i hasten to add yobo problem free, its really great what your doing Good Luck Alan4711
Would be nice to have a large planter like the brightly coloured train but there is a large raised bed and some small areas for planting.(shame there is not much colour at the station even in paint).
Good luck with your allotment, lots of winter digging to do then, the station had a lot of digging to be done as the raised bed was overgrown, But worth the effort to make more colour there.
it looks great and that bike is something else,,do you think the rail people would be interested in a kind of competition for station gardeners, they might help with the flower supplying or something, anything to help maybe tools as prizes whateve,r with the prices we all pay for tickets ,I'm sure they can afford it , and they would probably be glad to help all good PR stuff, i know you dont do it for gain but it all helps .
Bike not at sholing, it is in a different station, I like too.
Nice of people to donate items and plants to help at stations look attractive.
We bought a few plants and got our money paid back from the three rivers rail - they are a non profitable business, just to make journey nice for commuters, isn't that nice of them and with help of volunteers- to keep stations looking good for others.
Hi Gardengirl, It looks great, once the spring bulbs get going it should really start to shine, well done for getting involved and doing this. You can't beat flowers for making somewhere a pleasant place to be. The forum doesn't have a clapping smiley but if it did I would place one here.
Found some very old pictures of Sholing station looks complety different
Brick buildings
Here's how it looks now
Railings are all blue not red
The shelters now so much smaller
The new raised bed garden which I have been helping with - more like a garden than it was an over grown mess. The garden is getting there will have lots of bulbs in spring. Allways things to do.
What do you think about Sholing station?
Have you got any photos of the train station near where you live and how it looks now?
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Hay there has been a photo added to the facebook page link above post.
showing our flower bed at sholing station if anybody would like to have a look.
Nice one Garden girl, having just moved into a new house in Wales and have taken on an allotment from scratch time prevents us from helping or starting a station venture, but we have moved from Falmouth and a couple of stations there were just suphered one has a large wooden noddy type of train for the kids brightly painted and full of colourfull flowers and i hasten to add yobo problem free, its really great what your doing Good Luck
Alan4711
Hello Alan4711
Thanks
Would be nice to have a large planter like the brightly coloured train but there is a large raised bed and some small areas for planting.(shame there is not much colour at the station even in paint).
Good luck with your allotment, lots of winter digging to do then, the station had a lot of digging to be done as the raised bed was overgrown, But worth the effort to make more colour there.
Anybody had a look at the photos on www.facebook.com/threeriversrail
Tell me what you think of sholing station does it look ok?
Could it do with something else added?
any thoughts people
it looks great and that bike is something else,,do you think the rail people would be interested in a kind of competition for station gardeners, they might help with the flower supplying or something, anything to help maybe tools as prizes whateve,r with the prices we all pay for tickets ,I'm sure they can afford it , and they would probably be glad to help all good PR stuff, i know you dont do it for gain but it all helps .
Good luck Alan
Bike not at sholing, it is in a different station, I like too.
Nice of people to donate items and plants to help at stations look attractive.
We bought a few plants and got our money paid back from the three rivers rail - they are a non profitable business, just to make journey nice for commuters, isn't that nice of them and with help of volunteers- to keep stations looking good for others.
Hello all
Some news that sholing station could be getting a water butt.
Which should help when all the plants need watering in the new made flower bed.
Do you know of any train stations that has a water butt?
Hi Gardengirl, It looks great, once the spring bulbs get going it should really start to shine, well done for getting involved and doing this. You can't beat flowers for making somewhere a pleasant place to be. The forum doesn't have a clapping smiley but if it did I would place one here.
Hello all
Found some very old pictures of Sholing station looks complety different
Brick buildings
Here's how it looks now
Railings are all blue not red
The shelters now so much smaller
The new raised bed garden which I have been helping with - more like a garden than it was an over grown mess. The garden is getting there will have lots of bulbs in spring. Allways things to do.
What do you think about Sholing station?
Have you got any photos of the train station near where you live and how it looks now?
Charming photographs of such at atmospheric station! Reminds me of those St Trinians comedies from Ealing Films!