Summer flowers street collection continues today

Just a reminder that the street collection for the Kilcullen In Bloom summer flowers programme continues today. 

A lot of work by the KCA volunteers and CE workers goes into making the town and cheerful and colourful place for the coming months. It's expensive too.

Give what you can — every euro helps.

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Summer flowers collection this weekend

The street collection for the Kilcullen In Bloom 2025 flowers programme is taking place tomorrow and Saturday.

KCA volunteer collectors will be at the usual locations on Main Street over the two days.

The organisers are appealing for a generous response to help with the big expense of the flowers installations.

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Kilcullen in Bloom collection this weekend

Images: KCA.

The annual Street Collection to fund the Kilcullen In Bloom project will be held next Friday and Saturday.

Donations can be made by cash or card to the Kilcullen Community Action collectors who will be at the usual places on Main Street. All support really appreciated.

The window boxes and hanging baskets are now planted up and ready for installing, and planters around the town are being filled over the coming week.

Watering systems are being tested and volunteers for manual watering identified — if you feel like getting involved in Tidy Towns chat to any of the weekend's collectors.

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High five for Kilcullen In Bloom 2022

 

After three weeks away, the impact of how much the Kilcullen In Bloom flowers have developed is quite stunning, writes Brian Byrne.

Well done to Kilcullen Community Action for this annual initiative, and also to the businesses' and individuals' donations which make it possible.

It helps to make summer special.

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Flowers arrive for Kilcullen in Bloom 2022

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The flowers for Kilcullen in Bloom 2022 arrived on Saturday, supplied by Down to Earth Landscapes and Nurseries.

They are being stored in the KCA Polytunnel, and will be planted in the KIB window-boxes and hanging baskets over the next two weeks.

Anyone who wants to contribute to the KIB fund can do so here. 

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Kilcullen in Bloom collection this weekend

The annual Street Collection for the Kilcullen in Bloom summer flowers project will be held on Friday and Saturday next.

It is the first time the collection by Kilcullen Community Action will be on the street after two years of the pandemic.

Donations will be accepted by cash or card, at the usual collection points.

Feel free to talk to the collectors about the project, which brightens the town through the summer.

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Pumping flowers ...

Nice job on the pump, KCA ... that's what it needed to be part of Kilcullen in Bloom.

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Kilcullen is blooming ...

A bit of a treat this sunny morning with a camera walk through Kilcullen to see the summer flowers in bloom, writes Brian Byrne.

Though only recently installed, many of the displays are already looking very well, and will only improve as they come to cascade out of their containers over the coming weeks.

The stunning effect all represents hard work and dedication by the volunteers and workers of Kilcullen Community Action, with over 200 window boxes planted, along with eight large planters at CPC and Bank of Ireland.

Three new tiered planters have also been put in place, and the canoe area at Hillcrest has been replanted, and the six large barrel planters on the hill area also cleaned up.

The hanging baskets on the bridge have been put in place, the Logstown road flower bed planted, and the painting of rails and bollards continues, thanks to the help from CPC TY students and others.

In addition, the Market Square flower bed has been cleaned up and planted, and the displays in the Library Garden are also looking really good.

If you want to help with the funding for this exceptional effort, you can contribute to the GoFundMe page here. 

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Planting of Kilcullen window boxes in train

Kilcullen Community Action is busy this evening getting the first batch of some 200 window boxes planted for Kilcullen In Bloom, writes Brian Byrne.

The flowers, provided by Down to Earth Landscapes, arrived on Saturday, and getting them all planted will be done over three sessions by different teams of KCA volunteers.

You can donate to KIB and the Valley Fairy trail project here. 

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Window boxes ready for planting

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Getting ready to brighten up Kilcullen — these are some of the 200  window-boxes ready to be planted up by KCA for this year's Kilcullen in Bloom.

A GoFundMe page to enable donations to the project is available here. 

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Flowers arriving next week for Kilcullen In Bloom

Flowers for the 2021 Kilcullen In Bloom displays are scheduled to arrive on 28 May, the recent meeting of Kilcullen Community Action heard, writes Brian Byrne.

KCA Chair Ann Cashman said that KCA members and their families who want to help prepare the boxes should contact her. Participation in the preparation will be restricted in line with covid-19 regulations.

"There's a lot of work involved," she said. "It's a huge undertaking." The project involves planting in 200 window boxes, a number of planters, and 30 hanging baskets.

A GoFundMe page to enable donations to the project is available here. 

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KCA GoFundMe for 2021 Bloom, Fairy projects

Plans for the 2021 Kilcullen in Bloom project are now in train, with flowers expected to be in the street's window-boxes by late May or early June, writes Brian Byrne.

To fund this, and further development of the Valley Fairy Trail, Kilcullen Community Action has again set up a GoFundMe page, recognising that the normal financial supports from the community and businesses will not be available.

The funding goal is €6,000. The link to the GoFundMe page is here. 

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More synergy planned in KCA projects

A greater degree of synergy between various related projects under the direction of Kilcullen Community Action was suggested by KCA chair Ann Cashman at last week's meeting of the group, writes Brian Byrne.

The idea was raised during discussions about progress of the Community Garden, the polytunnel, and the Kilcullen In Bloom initiatives, all of which are in train under different leaderships.

Eoin Houlihan, fronting the polytunnel project which he hopes will be 'up and running' by October, agreed, saying that getting the composting element going would be a good start. "We need to embrace the whole idea of sustainability," he observed.

Derek Hoey, designer of the Community Garden in the grounds of the Library said increasing synergy is 'a no-brainer'. He said that once the heavy work in the project is done, and some raised planters installed, 'things will start to speed up a bit' there.

The prospect of KCA growing its own flowers for Kilcullen In Bloom will be piloted once the polytunnel is installed.

"I really like the idea of them all blending," Ann Cashman said.

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The good of a blooming morning

A walk around town this morning shows just how lively the Kilcullen In Bloom project is becoming, the flowers of the initiative responding very well to recent sunshine and showers, writes Brian Byrne.

Our photos tell the story on their own. Congratulations to all involved — Kilcullen Community Action and its volunteers and community workers, and the businesses and residents who have donated towards the costs.

 

 

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