Burgh Beautiful Linlithgow

Environmental Responsibility

Over the last 20 years we have planted hundreds of trees in and around the town and our volunteers are keen to promote projects which encourage biodiversity. The most recent tree planting and wildflower/wildlife projects are described in more detail via the following links:

New High Street trees
Rosemount Park
Triangle Wood
Orchard at The Vennel
New orchard at the Leisure Centre (Xcite)

Litter Picks and Clean-Ups

We organise regular community litter picks. We supply the litter picking tools and bin-bags, so just turn up on the day and one of our environmental volunteers will help get you started. Dates are announced on the Burgh Beautiful Facebook page, so make sure to follow us for details. Our own efforts are supplemented by other litter picks organised in association with local organisations such as the Rotary Club of Linlithgow Grange, Linlithgow Angling Club, local primary schools and other groups of individuals.

Local Beaver, Scout and Guide groups take part in litter picks as well as the schools. For 2025, the Beaver Colony plans to adopt Doomsdale Wood and this will include include litter picking as part of their programme.

Burgh Beautiful’s holding of litter picking tools is also available for loan to local clubs, groups and workplaces to assist them in the organisation of their own litter picks – which we very much encourage.

Other Good Environmental Practice
  • We are establishing an appropriate balance between permanent and annual planting.
  • We use local suppliers wherever possible. Burgh Beautiful grows what plants it can for bedding, but most bedding plants are supplied by local growers Pentland Plants (Loanhead) and the Mill Garden Centre (Armadale).
  • Some plant trays received from Pentland Plants and the Mill Garden Centre are re-used as such by us, but the vast majority are cleaned out and returned to the growers for re-use.
  • Polyanthus from winter/spring planting are recycled for the following year and maintained over the summer at our Clarendon base.
  • At the end of the season, we compost, or send for composting, all the annual plants from our hanging baskets, planters and flower beds. Rotted down material made at our Clarendon base is made available to fellow volunteers and the community at large for use as mulch or as a soil improver.
  • Sainsbury’s donates to us any unsold bulbs which would otherwise go to waste.
  • Spent bulbs are dried and re-used; rainwater is collected from roofs; we have compost bays made from recycled materials.
  • Peat-free compost is used exclusively.
  • The greenhouse at our base was donated and re-erected.
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