{"id":29522,"date":"2026-03-31T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=29522"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:26:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:26:02","slug":"i-didnt-see-a-host-of-golden-daffodils","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=29522","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I [didn&#8217;t] See A Host of Golden Daffodils&#8230;.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29551 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/Daffodils-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"228\" \/><strong>Oooops..!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bristol City Council has been quick to apologise after grounds staff mowed a park that volunteers had planted with 30,000 daffodils and other spring bulbs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Friends of St George\u2019s Park in Bristol fundraised to buy 30,000 spring bulbs to make their community beautiful. \u00a070 volunteers, including parents and their small children, invested time and money doing the backbreaking job of digging holes and individually sinking bulbs into them.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from Bristol City Council stated: \u201cWe recognise the upset and concern this incident has caused the local community\u2026 Officers are investigating the events around the mowing of this area and will liaise directly with the ward councillors and local volunteers to address the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Council has since offered to cover the \u00a36,000 cost of the bulbs.<\/p>\n<p>The Friends had raised the money for the bulbs over long months by selling 12,000 bags of duck food from the Park\u2019s cafe.\u00a0 Seeing the stubs of flowerless stalks was, as one volunteer said \u2018really demoralising\u2019, to put it mildly.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the Friends had coordinated the planting with Bristol City Council\u2019s conservation and parks teams.\u00a0 Members of the team and at least two councillors helped with the planting.\u00a0 The Council was even planning to use the publicity from this lovely event to demonstrate how volunteers can work with councils to improve local parks.<\/p>\n<p>While the hours spent fundraising and planting have come sickeningly to nothing this year, the speedy apology and willingness to cover the cost of the bulbs are at least providing signs of new growth in relations between the council and local people.\u00a0 It may be of little comfort now, with only a third of the bulbs potentially surviving to flower, but next year\u2019s display should be all the more precious.<\/p>\n<p>Let us hope for \u2018a crowd, a host of golden daffodils \u2026 nodding their heads in sprightly dance\u2019 in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oooops..! 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