Burgh Beautiful Linlithgow

News and Projects

• Litter Pick

  5 August 2024 – LITTER PICK

  

  Burgh Beautiful organises litter picks throughout the year. It continues to amaze and disappoint how much litter is dumped in our town.

  Keep an eye on our Facebook page for future dates. Please do consider coming along – bags and pick sticks are provided.

• Rosemount Park

  24th July 2024 – ROSEMOUNT PARK

  

  A large group of friends of the late Averil and Gavin Stewart met at Rosemount Park to plant a tree in their memory. Both Averil and Gavin were long time volunteers with Burgh Beautiful and they are sorely missed.

  The tree, a Chinese Silver Birch, is the type which held pride of place on their back lawn and was the first tree they planted in their garden when they moved to Linlithgow in the 1970s.

• Station Planters

  13th July 2024 – NEW PLANTERS AT RAILWAY STATION

  

  A new train arrived on Platform One this week!

  ScotRail makes a donation to Burgh Beautiful to supply and maintain all the colourful bedding plants around the station.

  The ‘train’ planter had seen better days so was cancelled, but they were kind enough to put on a replacement for us. It’s now up to the team of volunteers to plant it up!

• Planting Baskets

  7th July 2024 – PLANTING AUTUMN HANGING BASKETS

  

  Some of the hanging baskets in the West Port area are attracting crows and magpies who dig up the plants with their sharp beaks. We are experimenting by planting our autumn baskets earlier with ivy and periwinkle so that they form a stronger root ball. Hopefully this will foil the birds attempts to dig them up!

• Inviting Gardens

  28th/29th June 2024 – INVITING GARDENS

  

  Our Inviting Gardens over the weekend was a huge success. Some sixteen private gardens, a range of sponsored beds, Linlithgow’s community gardeners, as well as Burgh Beautiful beds all took part.

  Thank you to everyone who participated in the annual event.

• New Public Art

  14th June 2024 – THISTLES SCULPTURE

  

  This impressive metal ‘thistles’ planter and sculpture was installed in The Vennel.

  The work was financed by Pubwatch under the watchful eye of Ian Gibson. It was designed and made by Kevin Hope of Bo’ness steel fabricators, Granfab Ltd.

  The planting around the bottom of the sculpture, made up of various ‘thistle-like’ plants, and carried out by Quentin Allardice of Turf Irrigation Services (Scotland) Ltd who provided the drainage gravel and soil, reflects the design above.

  Congratulations to all concerned! A worthy addition to the Linlithgow scene.