Boat wanted (doesn't need to be seaworthy)

The Keeping Nairnshire Colourful group are looking for a boat not seaworthy, to use as a planting feature It will sit beside the dairy near to the A96 roundabout , size of boat max length would be 20 feet. If any gurnites can help the KNC we would be delighted to forward details.

Bulb planting on the Links

Keeping Nairnshire Colourful have been active once again today, planting eight thousand crocus bulbs down by the viewpoint near the baths. They also planted some more bulbs at the Cemetery field and on the A96 verges. This picture from Billy who expresses his thanks for all those who helped today. Well done Keeping Nairnshire Colourful!

Bulb planting thanks

From Billy of Keeping Nairnshire Colourful

Thanks to all those folk who came along and helped us with the planting of the daffodil bulbs, they should make a fine display and the weather was kind to us as well. We will be planting again next weekend so if anyone can help please come along. Well done folks a great mornings work.

Keep Nairnshire Colourful - Volunteers needed for the next two Saturdays

Keeping Nairnshire Colourful need a hand on Saturday the 24th and also the following weekend on Saturday 1st of October. Both days are a 9.00 a.m. start. The aim is to create a vivid blue loch at the bottom of the Cemetery Brae. Last year thousands of Muscari (Grape Hyacinth) bulbs were planted to create an impressive river of blue. Next spring if the work is completed, the river will flow into a loch.

Keeping Nairnshire Colourful will also be planting 110,000 bulbs at other locations around town and are always on the look-out for more volunteers. If you want to get involved in the group's work ring Dougie Gray on 01667 460003 or give Billy a PM on the Facebook page.

Dougie told the Courier recently: I am interested in the town looking bonnie. I think it is important to make the approaches to Nairn, whether it is from the east, west or south, as colourful as possible so that people so that people are more likely to stop in Nairn rather than driving through."

Blue River

Thanks to Billy for this picture of Keeping Nairnshire Beautiful's Blue River

Gardening club keeping it colourful too

Picture will enlarge. The Garden club volunteered to help the Keeping Nairnshire Colourful campaign out with the creation of this bed out at Achareidh on the A96. More details of the bed and other colourful activities in the posts below. Thanks to Billy for the picture.

Snowdrops planted in Kingsteps Quarry

Young members of Keeping Nairnshire Colourful out this morning planting snowdrops in the Kingsteps Quarry. More pictures here.

Planting snowdrops - would you like to help?

The Keeping Nairnshire Colourful group will be planting Snowdrops on Sunday 27th March at Kingsteps quarry. They will be meeting up on location at 10.30.am. and would be delighted to see anyone wishing to help.

Second A96 bed planted up

Thanks to Billy for this picture of the work done today by the Keep Nairn Colourful volunteers.

Volunteers step in to keep Nairn Colourful

Despite the cut, we'll still have the flowerbeds beside the A96. They are being planted by volunteers. This one was planted up by the Keeping Nairnshire Colourful group, others will soon be planted by the Gardening club and other groups. Well done citizens! Thanks to Billy for the picture.

Bulb planting

Thanks to Billy for this picture of the bulb planting by the Grantown road today. Keeping Nairnshire Colourful planted thousands of muscari to create a cascade effect down the brae.

Plant a bulb and help a child - Focus on Crocus in Nairn

News from Nairn's contribution to the Focus on Crocus initiative:

Members of the Rotary Club of Nairn and the gardening enthusiasts of “Keeping Nairnshire Colourful” will be getting together in Nairn on Saturday 2nd October to participate in the World's Largest Bulb Planting, in the hope of making it into the Guinness Book of Records. They have 10,000 purple crocuses to plant in Nairn. Voluntary organisations and groups, and residents of Nairn, are invited to come and spend some time on Saturday morning helping to plant the bulbs.
This bulb-planting event is part of a nationwide initiative involving Rotary Clubs, the Eden Project, and many other organisations, who will be planting hundreds of thousands of crocuses across the UK during October.

The aim is to add some colour to Nairn’s springtime flower displays, and to draw attention to Rotary's "Thanks for Life" campaign, a worldwide initiative in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to eradicate the scourge of polio from the world.
The colour purple has been chosen because when the Rotary and World Health Organisation teams carry out vaccinations, the little finger of each child is dipped in a purple dye so that people can tell who has been immunised and who has not.

A dose of vaccine for a child costs 20p. The planting teams in Nairn will be inviting donations of 50p or £1 for each bag of bulbs. Next spring, the roadsides and flowerbeds of Nairn should be ablaze with colour - and the beautiful purple crocuses will be a reminder that as well as making Nairn colourful, we are helping to rid the world of one of its most crippling diseases.

Everyone interested in participating is invited to assemble at the Nairn cemetery gates at 10 am on Saturday 2nd October. The planting will be alongside the Grantown Road, and also by the flowerbeds along the A96 opposite Duncan Drive. There will also be an opportunity during October to contribute to crocus bulb-planting at the Nairn Community Centre.
Bring your wellies, come and help plant some bulbs, make Nairn look good and be part of a world record!