Clean and green throughout the borough

Date published: 03 September 2016

Green spaces on arterial routes in and out of the borough have been getting trimmed, cleared and planted with new improved floral displays.

Planting at Sudden

Oversized flowerpots at Junction 19

Council staff volunteers planting

Prominent displays

• Banking to side Summit pub in Heywood: 50m long swathe of herbaceous perennials and cherry trees for spring colour
• Duke Street, Heywood: Newly planted silver birch and trial flower meadow
• Pilsworth Road/A58 junction in Heywood: new angular timber planters to side of what used to be Brick House Pub
• A58/York Street junction in Heywood to front of church: Installation of two new high quality planters on traffic island, tired rose bed stripped out, new soil and manure and re-planted, double row of lavender planted and celebration sign fort Queen's 90th birthday installed
• Queen's Park Road, Heywood, opposite market: Planting space between two existing rockery features with three varieties of heuchara, dotted with zebra grass for vertical accents
• Junction 19 M62 between Heywood and Middleton: New brightly coloured outsize plant pots will flower display spilling out
• Bowlee Park, Middleton: Grass verge sown with flower meadow mix
• Archer roundabout, Middleton: Spring flower bed (will have to wait to next spring to see it in bloom)
• Bus station roundabout, Middleton: Trial 90m arc of flower seed mix round two thirds of the roundabout
• Oldham Road/Assheton Way roundabout Middleton: Stripping out four shrub beds, two replanted this year with herbaceous flowers and six new trees planted for autumn foliage interest
• Sudden Junction: Mini installation plus trial flower meadow and new tree planting for autumn foliage interest
• St Mary's Gate, Rochdale: 60m snake of lavender and verbena planted
• Rochdale Town Centre: Four new high quality planters at the train station/taxi rank, high quality, modern design
• Rochdale Town Centre Riverside area: Seven new high quality planters, modern design
• Rochdale Town Centre between tram station and Town Hall: Five planters in a circle to simulate a flower head, again new high quality, modern design
• Rochdale Town Centre hanging baskets Town Hall Frontage: Brackets replaced and new baskets installed for first time in many years - Rochdale Town Centre between Memorial Gardens and York Street and between York Street Hunters Lane: 'Hay rack' flower displays installed on walls
• Littleborough: two new large modern design planters installed near the war memorial and bus station turnaround to replace small, old fashioned pebbledash 1960s style planters
• Milnrow - Dale Street: Gardens refurbished, wall repaired, tired rose beds stripped out, soil/manure replenished and replanted. Four new high quality, large scale planters.
• Milnrow Memorial Gardens: Flower meadow trialed with strips either side of pedestrian entry near motorway

In addition to all these sites for major works, many other sites cleaned up and improved by council staff working with Pennines, Heywood and Rochdale In Bloom groups.

Summit banking in Heywood

Middleton roundabout

Mini floral display in Sudden

http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/104870/quirky-mini-flowerbed-money-well-spent