Entrants in this year’s Bradley Stoke in Bloom ‘Best Front Garden’ competition were presented with prizes and certificates at a ceremony staged on Saturday 13th August as part of the Scarecrow Trail launch event. The competition, now in its tenth year, attracted 15 entrants across its two (large and small garden) categories.
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As our annual Best Front Garden competition is now in its 9th year, I think we can justifiably claim it is now a firm fixture in Bradley Stoke’s social calendar, writes Sara Messenger. This year we had a record-breaking 24 entries: 14 in the large category and 10 in the small category…
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The ‘new’ calf Debbie and her faithful doggy companion Treacle have finally made their way out of their winter barn and into the warm spring air in the Manor Farm field (roundabout). Plus: Find out how to enter this year’s Bradley Stoke in Bloom Best Front Garden competition (entries close 9th July).
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Recently, we haven’t able to do much other than plan what we want to do when both the chill morning mist and lockdown are lifted. However, we did manage to put out a few Easter decorations and we are very pleased to report that this year none of the decorations hopped it!
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News on a purple bulb planting scheme put forward by Bradley Stoke Rotary Club and the town council’s purchase of a new ‘Debbie the calf’ figure to replace the one stolen from the BSiB display on Manor Farm Roundabout.
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A report on the prize-giving ceremony held at Almondsbury Garden Centre. “The range of gardens was amazing, from well-established ones to several very new ‘lockdown’ gardens, but whether new or old, big or small, the care and attention and the pride taken was very evident in them all.”
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We’re slowly finding our new normal and have been able to complete a few tasks, even though we’ve yet to reinstate our regular workdays and the blazing hot weather has not been kind to any of us gardeners. Plus: Debbie (the calf) and Treacle (the dog) have both been stolen from our display on Manor Farm Roundabout.
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“Although I sometimes felt that I was nailed to the spot as the Covid-19 storm raged around me, sweeping aside all that I thought I knew, Mother Nature was having none of it and seized the moment and bloomed.” (Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group).
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By Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. We don’t do what we do for the awards, the green Brownie points or even the free tea and biscuits, but because we believe this is our town and while we are here we want to do what we can to make her look her best. We don’t want to see graffiti
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By Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Earlier this year we were visited by the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS’s) judge Guy Rawlinson and his wife. We were delighted to be able to show them around the town and all our little patches, although not quite as delighted as we were to recently receive the following email: “I have the
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