http://yorkstories.co.uk/glorious-summer-and-this-sun-in-york/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://yorkstories.co.uk/glorious-summer-and-this-sun-in-york/#comment-675089 Thu, 06 Sep 2018 09:53:34 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=13874#comment-675089 York’s Bloom! festival was a fascinating experience, with access to a number of places not normally open to the public as well as the brightening up of some public spaces. It was a very cheerful event, but what struck me most was the bleakness of the open spaces after the flowers and greenery were taken away. Exhibition Square in particular was wonderful with flowers but has now returned to it’s usual bleakness. I hope Bloom! is repeated next year, and that we might see more shrubs and flowers in our squares on a year round basis.

]]> http://yorkstories.co.uk/glorious-summer-and-this-sun-in-york/#comment-674523 Thu, 02 Aug 2018 14:10:36 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=13874#comment-674523 Dear Lisa, I’ve only recently discovered your website.. i really like it.. I’ve been a York resident for many years… maybe not for much longer… but I would like to tell you of something I have been ‘gifting’ to York in the past two or three years….. I live near Bootham mental hospital and have for the past couple of years been scattering Forgetmenot seeds and Bluebell seeds in amongst the trees at the front of the site…. this year there was a lovely show of forgetmenots and bluebells and hopefully next year when i may not be living nearby there will be an even bigger show.It is my gift to York…. to counteract what seems to me the increasing mercenary nature of the city? Not our fault? But I wanted to give beauty and pretty flowers for people to see as they walked into town along Bootham. It heartens me. I hope it does you? best wishes, Maggie Barton.

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