Llanelli Rotary's blooming great project

Llanelli schoolchildren have been helping the town’s Rotary Club with an ambitious project which will literally spring into life next February.
‘Focus on the Crocus’ is the name of an innovative Rotary project which is seeing thousands of crocus bulbs being planted in prominent locations.
The mass-planting is part of a national campaign to publicise the international Rotary movement’s campaign to eradicate polio.
“It is a massive project,” said Llanelli Rotary President Melanie Carroll-Cliffe.
“In Llanelli, we are delighted the project has something of a prime spot in the gardens at the front of Llanelli Town Hall.”
President Melanie was accompanied by 10 children from Pentip Church in Wales Primary school to plant the purple crocus bulbs in Town Hall Square.
The gardener attached to the Town Hall, Tony Evans, has assured the Rotarians that when the crocus flowers bloom (hopefully in February) they will be a truly magnificent display.
Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland (RIBI) is working with The Eden Project, the International Flower Bulb Centre (IBC), the National Trust and Learning through Landscapes to plant purple crocus bulbs so they will be in flower for Rotary Day – 23 February 2011.
The purple flowers represent the colour of ink dabbed on a child’s little finger to indicate they have been immunised against polio.
You can find out more by visiting –
http://www.focusonthecrocus.org
Pics: Jeff Wheeler