Bonnie Banchory
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The Bonnie Banchory Project has been formed under the umbrella of BDI to enhance and extend the floral decorations in Banchory Town Centre and other focal points around the town. The Team believes that a more attractive town will bring many benefits and the project has received widespread support from a range of businesses, community groups and individuals. Friends of Bonnie Banchory If you would like to help, we would like to hear from you. We need green fingers for planting and maintenance, people with large capacity vehicles to transport planted baskets and tubs, greenhouses to bring on plants; sponsors for tubs and baskets; and donations towards the purchase of additional baskets, plants, bulbs, tubs and compost. If you can do any of these you will automatically qualify to become a Friend of Bonnie Banchory. Please email info@banchory.org or phone 01330 823856 if you would like to help. |
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Friends of Bonnie Banchory
Donations & In-kind Help from Organisations
- Aberdein Considine
- Banchory Academy
- Banchory and District Initiative
- Banchory Beavers Cubs
- Banchory Community Council
- Banchory Primary School
- Banchory Ternan Rotary Club
- Bancon
- Charles Michie Chemist - Banchory
- Easter Anguston Farm
- Hill of Banchory Primary School
- Bruce McCombie
- Raemoir Garden Centre
- Roy Cowie Landscape Service
- Royal Deeside Railway Society
- Taylors of Banchory
- The Stag
- Alastair Thomson
- Jim Thomson
Individual Donations and in-kind help
- Ann Addlesee
- Beryl Andrew
- Margaret Baker
- Agnes Barrack
- James Berne
- John Berry
- Margaret Booth
- Bernadette Bouchet
- Christina Brown
- Tony Brown
- Jane Bruce
- Mary Bullough
- Fiona Buchan
- James Burnett
- Helen Carberry
- Karen Clark
- Linda and Graeme Clark
- T Clark
- Doug Considine
- Isobe Cook
- Clive Cornwall
- Roy Cowie
- Kate Cruickshank
- Beryl Daley
- Ivy Duncan
- Ian Edwards
- Chris Engel
- Elizabeth Fairgrieve
- Moira Ferguson
- Bill Findlay
- Lizzie and Ian Finlayson
- Joan Fleming
- Moira Forsythe
- Angela Foy
- Fran Getliff
- Joss Goddard
- Clare Gordon
- The Grahams
- Paulette Gould
- L Hall
- Etta Hayward
- Jean Henretty
- Paul Herrington
- Miss Hunter
- C James
- Kersten Kelly
- David Kirton
- Lorraine Lawton
- Isobel Mackie
- Dr Frank Mair
- Norma Makin
- Tony Makin
- Paul Mason
- Mr and Mrs Mawby
- Norma Menzies
- Anne and John Merritt
- Bill Morrice
- Julie Morrice
- Gordon Mortley
- Esther Mortley
- James Mortley
- Angela Muir
- Barbara Muir
- Jackie Murray
- Mr and Mrs George Parkinson
- Margaret Paterson
- Mrs Shula Paterson
- Eleanor Pate
- Jill Pratt
- J and C Reid
- K and M Rowson
- Cecilia Rogers
- Sue Rochester
- Kim and Kathleen Rooney
- C Rowe
- Julie Sayer
- Jonathan Shelbourne
- Bill Smith
- Rebecca Stripling
- Marjory Tempercy
- Jim Thomson
- Tony Tulett
- Anne Verney
- Margaret Ward
- Paul Webb
- Dot Williamson
- Sadie Wilson
- Maggie Wilson
- Nicola Chambury
- Brenda Champion
- Avril Clark
Participating Businesses Providing their own Floral Displays
- Allan J. Milne
- Banchory Toy Shop
- Bentleys
- Blooms
- Burrells Pharmacy
- Cairn Gourmet
- Charles Michie Chemist
- Continental Cream
- Deeside Larder
- Douglas Arms Hotel
- Flower Vogue
- Hair for Men
- Hughes MacDonald & Davidson
- Interior Design
- It's Curtains for You
- K&D Voice
- Kalani
- Mitchells
- Orvis
- Pauline Rumbles
- Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace
- Riah's & Deeside Photographics
- Taylors of Banchory
- The Barber Shop
- The Burnett Arms
- The Card & Gift Shop
- The Chocolate Shop
- The Co-op
- The Creel
- The Deeside Piper
- The Derbar
- The Pet Shop
- The Shieling
- The Stag
- Visage
- Yeadons of Banchory
Diary
November 26th: Three volunteers planted bulbs in the flower beds outside the Council Offices on the High Street in Banchory.
November 12th: Two intrepid volunteers planted the embankment at the bottom of Corsee Road with hundreds of crocuses.
November 3rd: Raemoir Garden Centre kindly replanted the tubs on the High Street with winter flowering plants.
November 2nd: This week pupils at the Academy will be clearing the annuals from the Millenium Garden and replanting with bulbs.
October 25th: About 20 volunteers braved the weather to help plant over 3,000 daffodil bulbs. The tubs on Scott Skinner Square were also replanted.
October: A Certificate of Merit has been awarded to Banchory by Beautiful Scotland under their Neighbourhood Awards Scheme.
September : Hill of Banchory Primary School held a 'sponsor a bulb' event and raised over £800, the equivalent of 6000 daffodil bulbs.
August 18th: Two assessors from the Beautiful Scotland Campaign visited Banchory to see how the Bonnie Banchory Group were getting on with their project to make Banchory a more attractive town.
July 2nd: Frieda Morrison officially opened the Hill of Banchory Eco Garden at a Grand Opening Ceremony. All the children celebrated by wearing "Garden Party Hats. The children have built a plastic bottle greenhouse and a poly tunnel for the eco garden to enable them to grow many different types of fruits and vegetables. The pupils have also been working hard to improve the aesthetics of the school grounds by planting up planters with lots of bright vibrant annuals, these are now growing wonderfully and flowering in abundance. Two new planters were bought for the front entrance and these now offer a warm welcome to our school. Parents and visitors have commented on how much brighter the planting is and the school hopes to maintain this in future years by adding more perennial plants and bulbs to the scheme.
June 12th: The baskets and planters were installed in the Town Centre at 8am. A huge thank you goes to the many people who made this possible: including the planting team of Dr. Frank Mair, Sheila Davis and 3rd Stage, Barbara Muir and Joan Flemming; Crathes Plant Centre for the use of their facilities; Bruce McCombie for transporting the baskets to the High Street; and Jim Thompson for hanging the baskets.
June 4th: Plants from Aberdeenshire Council Landscaping Service arrive and are delivered to Crathes Castle Plant Centre where members of the community joined the Bonnie Banchory Team to help plant 29 self-watering hanging baskets to be placed in the town centre.
June 1st: A group of 8 enthusiastic students and two teachers from Banchory Academy have started to rejuvenate the School's Millenium Garden as part of Activities Week, with assistance from Woodend Barn's Third Stage Group and members of the Bonnie Banchory Team. Clearing out overgrown shrubs was a major task but made quite a difference. New compost was purchased along with a variety of herbaceous plants. Some annuals were gifted from the Bonnie Banchory group which gave instant colour.All who have seen the garden since the make-over was completed have admired and praised the work done. During the recent spell of warm weather the Art Classes were taking full advantage of the area by working outside amount the flowers.
The schools hope to incorporate an annual replanting of the garden during Activities Weeks in years to come.May 30th: Members of the Bonnie Banchory Team were at the Horticultural Society Sale. They raised £55.10p for the purchase of bulbs and signed-up 29 more 'friends'. Several members of the public offered to help plant bulbs in the autumn.
May 18th: Banchory Primary Pupils have planted seeds in the classrooms and have planted 4 planters made from old tyres in the playground.
May 18th: Hill Banchory Primary Pupils have planted 8 large planters, which have been placed around the school, each of these has been dedicated to a class of children who will care for their planter and water it each day.
May 11th: Roy Cowie's Team start to install the wall brackets for baskets provided by town centre businesses.
May 7th: The hanging baskets were planted with lobelia and other plants donated by the Raemoir Garden Centre. The planting took place at Crathes Castle Plant Centre where the baskets will be gronw-on in a polytunnel which has been made available to the project. The plan is to have the plants well established in the baskets ready for the addition of the Council supplied plants on 4th June and hanging of the baskets on June 12th .
May 1st: Hill of Banchory Primary pupils planted snowdrops and annuals in the school grounds.
April 22nd - 29th: The wall-baskets are distributed to local shops for planting.
April 28th: Hanging the baskets in the town centre has had to be rescheduled from the first to the second week in June due to availability of plants,
April 27th: Banchory Beaver Cubs have planted four pots with flowers to present to the residents of The Bellfield Nursing Home as their contribution to the Bonnie Banchory project. The pots will be placed by the front door of the Home and should give months of pleasure to all who see them..
April 24th: North Banchory Company have planted verges at the Hill of Banchory with some trees which will look splendid in a few years and they have also landscaped the roundabouts.
April 9th: the Banchory Ternan Rotary Club expressed their wholehearted support for the Bonnie Banchory Projectand generously offered to provide a further planter to the six already offered by the Raemoir Garden Centre which will be placed in the High Street in June. They also wished the Bonnie Banchory team well with the rest of the campaign..
Early April: Banchory Primary parents and children prepare the ground at the School's allotment at Woodend Barn
March 21st 2009: The Team was at the Farmers Market to promote the project. 48 new Friends donated £156 for bulbs to be planted this Autumn. The stall was decorated with pots of flowering plants from Raemoir Garden Centre.
March 19th 2009: Frieda Morrison of the BBC Potting Shed judged the finalists in the logo competition. The overall winner was Imogen Mawby of Primary 5 at the Hill of Banchory Primary School. The runners up were Eve Sealy P7 and Alicia Lumsden P4, both of Banchory Primary School and Daniel Mason and Chris Forbes, both of Primary 6 Hill of Banchory Primary School. The winning designs will be featured on this website in the near future.
March 18th: Shortlisting of finalists from the Hill of Banchory and Banchory Primary School for the Bonnie Banchory logo.
February 15 2009: Raemoir Garden Centre generously donates 6 granite tubs to Bonnie Banchory. Thank you Raemoir Garden Centre.
February 10 2009: Frieda Morrison of the BBC Potting Shed agrees to judge the Bonnie Banchory logo competion at the Hill of Banchory Primary School.
Early February 2009: The Team consults with Easter Anguston Farm and orders plants for wire hanging baskets. The shops are revisited and orders taken for wall-baskets. Bancon is contacted regarding roundabout planting.
January 2009: The Team held their first meeting to agree on the aims of Bonnie Banchory and the way forward. Some of the team visited Forres in Bloom to get ideas of what can be done. A survey of all local shops and businesses in the Town Centre was carried out. The local schools were contacted regarding a logo competition and the Scout and Cub groups were contacted to encourage participation
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