GREEN-FINGERED residents had a fantastic weekend brightening up flower beds in Royston.

Guides and Brownies were up early to fill new flower planters at the Guide hut, near Greneway School in Garden Walk.

And the Royston in Bloom team then headed to the Coombs Community Centre in Burns Road where they helped members of Royston Time Bank replant the flower beds.

Angela Louch, chairman of Royston in Bloom, said: “Girl guiding in Royston has been working hard raising money and enlisting volunteers from Brownies, Rainbows and the Guides.

“Under the leadership of Daphne Lodge, Joyce Mallows, and Claire Rice, summer flowering plants were planted in their new flower planters as a further step towards improvements to their Guide hut and grounds.

“The flower planters were made from recycled old wooden pallets and filled with compost recycled from the green waste collected in the green bins in the town.”

A new hedge next to the hut is to be planted in the autumn.

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