Dartmouth Green Partnerships
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ain or shine, day or night, there’s a merry bunch of green-fingered volunteers who work tirelessly to keep Dartmouth’s flowerbeds
colourful, hanging baskets watered and our roses well pruned! Dartmouth Green Partnerships, previously known as Dartmouth in Bloom, say despite recent budget cuts their future is still rosy. Steph Woolvin had a chat with chair Stevie Rogers and secretary Kathy Stansfield... Life certainly isn’t easy for the group
of volunteers who try to keep Dartmouth looking its best; back streets aren’t being regularly swept and weeds are appearing in many of the public spaces they work in. Dartmouth Green Partnerships relies on council grants, donations and sponsorships. Council funding cuts have hit hard and Kathy says they didn’t enter the South West in bloom main competition this year: “Our floral displays would have been spot on, but the weeds and untidy streets would have let us down. We usually win gold and didn’t want to enter unless we were fully up to par.” but she remains optimistic and says she and the team will continue with their work to keep the town looking pretty, “We are certain things will improve” she says. The 15-strong committee meets
once a month at the Royal Castle: “There aren’t many surprises with this kind of work - the calendar stays the same and you work with the seasons. We all get to know pretty quickly what needs doing and when,” says stevie. “We do discuss new colour schemes and decide, as a group, what plants to order. As well as the committee, we have loyal volunteers
Kathy Stansfield and Stevie Rogers.
who do things like deadheading flowers or pruning roses.” DGp plants floral displays all along Dartmouth embankment and elsewhere. between the
Higher Ferry and the Lower Ferry they have 114 hanging baskets, 20 troughs, three flower-filled boats, five large containers and several three-tiered planters. each of the boats has a name, “the britannia has red, white and blue flowers,” says Kathy. “When it comes to general colour schemes this year,
we used hot vibrant colours on the main streets - if the
arrangements make you salivate then we are getting it right!” stevie and Kathy both joined the
group in 2012 - a year before it changed its name. Kathy explains the thinking behind the new brand: “The Royal Horticultural Society changed its priorities and said groups should think not just about making beautiful floral
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