Where are all the springtime flowers? Colourless state of Riverhead revamp such a poor advert for Grimsby

                                                 

Where are all the spring flowers?  The only 'pop of colour' on a bright  morning is provided by a discarded drink can

BACK in January last year, North East Lincolnshire Council pledged to  plant 11,000 flowers, trees and shrubs in Riverhead Gardens.

Yes, 11,000! 

There would be trees and shrubs with blossom and berries, swathes of grasses pluswildflowers with "pops of colour and scent".

At least, that's what the  spokesperson said.

Some 15 months later - with £2.3-million spent - and what do we have? Barely a couple of hundred feeble-looking specimens, some seemingly with barely enough strength to die.

Other town centres are now rich in colour. So, notably, are the gardens in front of Grimsby Institute.

But at Riverhead Square - designated the beating heart of Grimsby's regeneration - there is scarcely a bloom to be be seen.   

What a disappointment!

Come on NELC - judging by the great displays that are an all-year feature of Cleethorpes seafront, you can do better than this.

Surely?

                           

Compare and contrast! The  grass,  flowers and shrubs outside Grimsby Institute put Riverhead Square to shame