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Albrighton Scouts hard at work planting in the village.
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02/06/2025
Albrighton Scouts and the community have been hard at work planting verges in the village. It will make the village even more prettier but also improve biodiversity too, so it's a win win for all.
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So we're here in Albrighton and we've just had some rain which means it's an
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excellent time for planting. Rachel who do you represent here I can see is that a
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Scouts logo I've got? First Albrighton Scouts. Yeah and who've we got with you?
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Elsie. And there's a whole gang of you isn't there is this all Scouts and parents is it or is it a bit of
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villagers chucked in us? We've got the wider community involved if they're not
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here planting they've definitely grown plants okay yeah yeah so what's what's
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this all about then so this is kind of the entrance to the village isn't it as
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you come from Cosford kind of way and is this all about brightening the place up
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yeah and yeah there is the visual about brightening the place up but there is a
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bit more sort of ecological value so improving the biodiversity of the
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verges yeah to help the pollinators and then in turn sort of helping the
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invertebrates birds and mammals. Fantastic. The verge is a nature corridor
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we've got the nature reserve over there yeah and we've got a coronation garden just
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around the corner where we've done a real wilding project and the idea is to
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connect all of these wild spaces together and we want these young people involved
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because you know they're going to be the custodians of these wild spaces in the
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future yeah and it's it's are you learning that you know just a little patch of
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grass next to a road it can be a lot more than that can't it it can be something
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you know more special if you put a bit of work in so Elsie you've been putting your
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back into it have you how many plants do you reckon you've planted 20 20 good going
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I'll be how many? 1340. Okay good I thought you were gonna say 21 then so what have you been
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plant do you can you remember the names of some of the plants you've been planting?
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Buttercups. You buttercups yeah. Cornflowers. Cornflowers. Cool yeah.
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Natweed. Natweed. Natweed.
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Natweed. Oxide daisies. Yeah look at that. Oxide daisies there's red campion white campion
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there's the bit of a superhero of a plant called yellow rattle okay yeah I've heard of that yeah
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so it's a semi-parasitic corn grass yeah so it helps to sort of manage the grass in the future
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okay so we've got a few of those sort of jotted about so these are all specially selected plants
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then for um for the hard work that they do how many plants do you reckon you're going to be
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planting in total then Rachel what do we reckon do you think we've got about a thousand or we've got
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more than 200 I'm hoping that along this stretch we've got a thousand odd plants a thousand odd
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plants that sounds like a lot of hard work and a few sore backs for moms and dads but you've been
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having fun though yeah so you're all involved in scouts you guys so we're cubs as well and what's um
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so it's it's great isn't it you do some great stuff with cubs and scouts
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cool you're getting out and about and what's the best thing been about today
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I really like planting all the plants yeah do you think you might be getting involved in the garden
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at home a bit more after today yeah I used to do a lot of planting okay okay good stuff and Elsie
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do you do much at home in the garden um I do help my mum make out like the flower bed around
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a massive tree in my garden oh well that's good well done well done well thank you for all your
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hard work that we can all enjoy I mean I don't live in Old Brighton but I drive through here so I
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should be looking next time I come past here see are they flowering I guess it'll be next summer
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we'll see them shining won't be at the best do you think I don't have something this summer yeah yeah
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but it'll be a few years before we get a real sort of get established I believe one plant that does
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have a little flower I think it's one of the corned flowers okay yeah yeah how cool is it that like
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for years to come even when you're driving you'll be able to drive past and go see all them flowers
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there well I planted them years ago yeah exactly yeah well thank you guys for all your hard work
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well done thank you thank you
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