A QUARTET of Bath stone flower planting urns will soon blossom with winter colour at Peebles war memorial..
The have replaced older ones which had become unsafe.
They urns were donated at a cost of £1,750 by Bonnie Peebles, a Scottish Incorporated Charitable Organisation.
On Tuesday, in the Chambers Institute quadrangle, group volunteers prepared them with compost for planting – in about 10 days time – with tulips and violas.
Margaret Wightman from Bonnie Peebles said: “The old planters were becoming very unstable and unsafe.
“These Clarence urns are Bath stone, the best colour match for the rest of the memorial from Haddonstone in Northampton.
“They supply the National Trust and other big estates.”
Six Bonnie Peebles members were also lifting the summer bedding plants in advance of any frost which would turn them to mush.
The beds will be fed and given two weeks rest before being replanted, with about 1,500 yellow and blue polyanthus, violas and red tulips, from Clyde Valley Plants.
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