Carlisle shows off Fairtrade City status in flowers
(Date of issue: Thursday 17 July 2008)
Carlisle as a Fairtrade city will be recognised at one of the
City Centre’s key landmarks, next week (July 23, 2008).
Carlisle City Council has worked with the Carlisle Fairtrade
Group to depict the nationally recognised Fairtrade logo in bedding
plants, in the raised flowerbed at the Cathedral’s Castle Street
entrance.
The Mayor of Carlisle, Councillor Jacquelyne Geddes, who is also
the City Council’s Fairtrade Member Champion along with Alison
McKee, Secretary of Carlisle’s Fairtrade Group will be making sure
that the carpet bed is looking its best.
Using the Fairtrade
logo as the design, the City Council’s Green Spaces’ team used
computer-aided technology to provide the blueprint for this
flowerbed design. Bedding plants were then matched to replicate the
logo’s colours.
More than 5,000 plants were used as the plant varieties, Sedum
Gold Mound, Alternantheraleh K, Ajuga chocolate chip and Echeveria
glauca, are very small so approximately 400 plants were used in
every square metre. Two gardeners took two and a half days to carry
out the planting.
Cllr Geddes said:
"Carlisle is a thriving Fairtrade city with many
of our shops, cafes, restaurants and businesses using and selling
Fairtrade products. This is a very strong visual way of promoting
Fairtrade but just as importantly it provides a very attractive
focal point for visitors, shoppers and residents who enjoy the
Cathedral grounds."
There are two carpet beds located within the district which the
City Council have created designs for, one at St Aidan’s Church and
the other within the Cathedral grounds. Anyone interested in making
suggestions for future designs should contact the Green Spaces team
on 01228 625060.
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