Tulips add to Floral St Saviour’s spring bulb planting
FLORAL ST SAVIOUR’S has added to its spring bulb display at the parish church by planting 1,000 red tulips along the boundary wall.
Group co-ordinator Liz Pirouet-Douglas said daffodils previously planted there had made a fine display and the tulips would extend the flowering season.
Members of the church congregation and children from the Church Sunday Club helped out.
‘The daffodils came out at the height of lockdown,’ said Mrs Pirouet-Douglas.
‘They were bright and cheerful and many people said it had given them a lift with new beginnings.’
The tulips would normally flower in April about a month after the daffodils.
In recent weeks the group has planted 750 daffodil bulbs at the New Cemetery and 1,000 at the Catioroc, along with 4,000 purple for polio crocus, daffodils and tulips at The New Life Church in Routes des Bordages.
Floral St Saviour’s has now planted 50,000 bulbs in the parish over the past four years and Mrs Pirouet-Douglas said the sustainable planting would ensure there were flowers year after year. The group will extend its bulb initiative by planting about 75 pots with crocus and daffodils and dropping them randomly on parishioners’ doorsteps in the run-up to Christmas. Youngsters from the Sunday Club will give pots to the church congregation.
The group pays for its projects by carrying out its own fundraising and it will have a stall at the forthcoming St Saviour’s Community Centre Christmas Fair.
