VILLAGERS are being encouraged to help improve the park in Alderley Edge.

The invitation comes from Christine Munro, a volunteer with Alderley Edge in Bloom.

The group’s Britain in Bloom volunteers took a walk around the park, which resulted in a wish list of things the group would like to do there.

It includes the following –

Green sculpture at the park steps. Raise tree canopies, remove the shrubs at the bottom of the steps, remove sycamore saplings.

Install lamp posts to light the paths from the car park to the allotments and from the London Road steps to the bowling green.

Co-ordinate planting done by Owen Spence behind the bench near the steps and alongside the railway fencing.

Raise the canopy on the sycamore in the lawn near the car park entrance.

Extend the three beds in the park or combine into one. Have more unity of planting using the Weinholt bed as a model.

Enhance the bandstand bed and seek a volunteer to adopt it.

Enhance the boundary behind the three beds by creating a shady woodland area.

Enhance the two beds at the bowling green end of the park and seek volunteers to adopt them.

Enhance the boundary near the bowling green by clearing and underplanting with ferns.

Remove a dead tree near the entrance to the allotments.

Create herbaceous borders along the tennis court front fence and entrance.

Remove grass around individual trees to make mowing easier and to give a more manicured appearance.

“If any group, school or church would like to adopt one of the beds in the park please let us know,” said Christine.

“We will help to clear it initially and then it would just be a question of keeping it weeding and planting it up if it needed it.

“We would love to make the park a beautiful place to visit, and we hope people agree and will help us make this happen.

“We are meeting on Thursday, August 17 at 7.30pm to talk everything through - if people are free do come along.

“If you're not able to come but have some ideas for the park or any other part of the village let us know so we can add them to our agenda.”

The meeting is being held at the Union Club in Stevens Street, Alderley Edge.