A KIDDERMINSTER park has been short-listed for an excellence in forestry award thanks to donations from keen gardeners and local organisations.
Springfield Park have been given a helping hand by Homebase in Bromsgrove, which donated 600 daffodil bulbs which will flower for the first time next Spring, and the Environment Agency, which helped to return Blakedown Brook into a more wildlife-friendly area.
The Friends of Springfield Park have also been working hard to craft a Woodland Garden from wasteland with support from Wyre Forest District Council.
About 100 primroses were donated from the redesign of a Kidderminster garden by Jenny Cooper.
She said: “I love Springfield park and what you [the friends] have done. I work in Broad Street two days a week and walk in the park at lunch time, as often as I can. For me, it is a real oasis of calm in the middle of the day.”
It is also hoped that otters will begin to make their way up the brook from the River Stour.
A wood carving of three otters, funded by a Lottery grant, has been made out of a tree stump by the brook by artist Matt Hawes.
The grant also paid for six oak benches that have been placed around the football fields and one in the woodland garden.
Judges from the Royal Forestry Society will be visiting the park at the end of May.
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