Burgh Beautiful Linlithgow

Burgh Beautiful Linlithgow aims to enhance the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow’s historic environment through its horticultural, environmental and community activities, encouraging civic pride and making the town more attractive to visitors. We take a ‘whole town’ approach, not just focussing on the town centre, and provide most of Linlithgow’s floral displays throughout the year.

Since the local authority (West Lothian Council) withdrew all its funding for seasonal planting in 2015, Burgh Beautiful has adopted all the former Council displays (with some amendments to the balance of planting). This has been achieved thanks to wonderful financial and voluntary support from local individuals, groups and businesses, allowing us also to take responsibility for ‘high amenity’ grass cutting where required for the setting of our displays.

Burgh Beautiful has around 100 volunteers who, along with community partners, now maintain 120 hanging baskets, 98 planters/barrels and 34 flowerbeds. In addition, the work of our community gardeners in the town centre and at Springfield is particularly impressive. Complementary activities, some by other parts of the Linlithgow Burgh Trust, include the encouragement of wildlife and wildflowers, promotion of sustainable materials such as peat-free compost, anti-litter initiatives, heritage interpretation and events, working with schools, tourism promotion, public art, tree planting and fund-raising events.