Burgh Beautiful Linlithgow
Floral Displays outwith Town Centre
The floral displays provided by Burgh Beautiful are not confined to Linlithgow’s town centre. As well as at most of the road entrances into the town, the results of our efforts can be seen throughout the town, from Springfield to Linlithgow Bridge.
Springfield Area
Burgh Beautiful plants and maintains several impressive flower beds which provide floral impact at various times of the year, including the mixed bed near the Spar shop which was given a comprehensive ‘makeover’ in 2023 (see photograph on left), and the beds on both sides of Springfield Road which welcome visitors to the area entering the area at the brow of the hill and which feature mature cordylines and well-clipped box hedging.
Blackness Road
At or near the junction of Springfield Road with Blackness Road, there are two significant floral displays, the one nearer the corner being backed by a beech hedge and a stone wall and containing a mix of permanent and annual planting designed to create impact at this ‘town entrance’ location. Nearby, performing a similar function, is a distinctive display of permanent planting containing well-grown spiky shrubs and grasses. Further in towards the town centre, at Provost Road, is a large heather bed which is particularly colourful in the spring and a smaller bed with mixed planting.
Above, from left to right: Springfield ‘entrance’ flower beds at the brow of the hill; flower bed near Kinloch View; mixed bed at Provost Road’ ; heather bed at Provost Road.
Linlithgow Bridge and Stockbridge
Providing the greatest floral impact in Linlithgow Bridge are Burgh Beautiful’s six planters half way along the Main Street, and a further welcome to travellers from the west is provided by the seasonal planting in three further containers at Stockbridge. Three of the four corners at the Linlithgow Bridge crossroads have flower beds containing mainly permanent planting, but some annuals in the beds, including a ‘flower tower’, provide summer colour at this important entry point to the town. The bed on the north-west corner was upgraded in 2018 and 2023.
Western Linlithgow
Here, the various floral displays include providing an attractive setting for the Lennox Cairn (a memorial related to the Battle of Linlithgow Bridge), three floral planters at the corner of Mains Road and Moray Drive, the mixed community bed at the other end of Moray Drive where it meets Braehead Road, and a bed of hydrangeas in Preston Road, roughly opposite the junction with Priory Road (which were an effective replacement for the annuals formerly planted there). Recent upgrading at the Lennox Cairn included cutting back the surrounding beech hedging and a comprehensive programme of replanting.
Above, from left to right: Upgraded bed at the north-western corner of the Mill Road crossroads; ‘flower tower’ at the south-eastern corner; floral planters at the Maltings end of Moray Drive; hydrangea bed at Preston Road.