Our scything team was out on force this morning at Bogs Meadow. First half cut and we'll be back later in the month to finish off the rest. Cutting and removing the waste helps maintain the low fertility level the flowers need. The City of Edinburgh Council

Space's #SummerProgramme by #WomensCollective & #Ukrainian group. 1: Ukrainian group in Dean Village (📷: Basya Volodarskaya) 2: Women's Collective in #SaughtonPark 3: Women's Collective at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 4: Women's Collective at Edinburgh Zoo #summer #Space #BroomhouseHub

It wasn't just scything on the menu today for volunteers. They also didpath work on the route to Asda chesser to keep the paths in good order, whilst removing some fly tipping. The City of Edinburgh Council Keep Scotland Beautiful

Change of season colours already started in #August on #WaterOfLeithWalkway #Currie although there's a few days left til official Meteorological Autumn begins on 1st #September Water of Leith Conservation Trust #Edinburgh Edinburgh THE WALK #countrysideinacity #EDINBURGH #MeteorologicalAutumn

A big thanks to staff from @LidlGB that lent as their 💪 today at St Marks. A full day of fun raking the wildflower meadow, removing sycamore saplings in the woods, sprucing up steadfast gate & exploring many spots along the river. Karma earned 🙌 🙌 The City of Edinburgh Council #CSR

The build up for Coale Park Funday on Sunday begins as we collect a wonderful donation of plants from Inch Nursery and borrow Edinburgh Greenspace silent disco kit..got any plans for Sunday?

Antony Gormley '6 Times' art installation in the Water of Leith. Pic: Deadline Scotland.

That's the interpretation finally up at Coalie Park just in time for Sundays funday ...from 1pm

Funday this Sunday at Coalie..join us from 1pm

Autumn colours on the Water of Leith

A morning clean up of #Leith before the Coalie Park funday that is currently happening. We audited the rubbish and found 230 cans, 142 plastic bottles, 78 glass bottles, 15 coffee cups, 9 bags of paper/plastic, 3 cones & 1 mattress were collected. The City of Edinburgh Council Keep Scotland Beautiful

Some trail camera footage of what the Water of Leith wildlife have been up to over the last four weeks! Lovely seeing what they do when no one is around! #fox #badger #otter #edinburgh #waterofleith #urbanwildlife

What a lovely afternoon at Coalie Park funday, music, dogs, bikes, cakes, plants and smiling faces what's not to love 😀...more photos to follow but for now the team need to collapse in a heap!

A busy morning down at Dean Village for our volunteers. A varied session cutting back and weeding the.walkway, building and painting benches, cutting off love locks and litter picking locally. The City of Edinburgh Council #leavenotrace

And a little wander along the water of Leith. Definitely go back with my bike at some point 👌🏼

A change of pace for Johnny our ranger. A two day course with Go Forth and Clyde ahead completing his Inland Waterway Helmsman course. He'll be ready to skipper the Leith clean up or act like a pirate in no time ☠️☠️☠️🥃🥃🥃 #everydayisaschoolday

A nice volunteer session in the sun on the Quilts side of the river down at #Leith The team gave the paths a good cut back to make them easier to use, raked off the first of the falling leaves and exposed more of the setts along the edges. The City of Edinburgh Council Paths for All

Thanks to Go Forth and Clyde who hosted Johnny for the last two days on his Inland Waterways Helmsman's Course. He assured us he gained lots of transferable knowledge & will stop 😁 soon after lots of fun driving a canal barge, waving to tow path users and drinking cups of tea.

We all need a little help especially when it comes to looking after a river. Thus kudos to Scottish Futures Trust who brought 42 employees to improve the Balgreen stretch. They got involved with a big clean up, meadow raking , walkway maintenance graffiti removal and memory creation.