An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Although some of the group have been away, others have been putting in some overtime. As well as extra weeding and watering, two of us spent a very hot afternoon putting in 100 tubers in the Jubilee Green Garden and the Manor Farm Corner. Butterfly Garden This month
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An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke in Bloom (BSiB). This month (June), we have concentrated our efforts on Palmers Corner (corner of Palmers Leaze and Webbs Wood Road). The plants in front of the wall now form an official flower bed, complete with edging, and most of the remaining bramble has been removed from the new lawn. The
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. The Common East Following on from our last workday at The Common East, our insect hotel has been a real success! It has delighted both young and not so young and, each time we go back, we meet many local children who are all eager to learn about
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Our annual Best Front Garden competition was judged at the end of July and it gives us very great pleasure to announce the winners! First place has again been awarded to Maureen Hopkins, who impressed the judges with the quantity and quality of plants and the character of
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The weather looks set fair for the Bradley Stoke in Bloom (BSiB) group’s Big Spring Clean and March workday tomorrow (Saturday 15th March). Why not get involved and help improve your local neighbourhood? Here’s what Gillian Rodger and Sara Messenger wrote about tomorrow’s event in the March edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine: Our next workday will be held
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With the next Bradley Stoke in Bloom (BSiB) workday coming up this Saturday (18th January), Sara Messenger gives us an update on the group’s recent activities. The BSiB group has installed the last two bespoke planters at the ‘Welcome to Bradley Stoke’ signs, at Trench Lane and the junction of Gipsy Patch Lane and Winterbourne Road. Bradley Stoke’s Julian Smith
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To mark the Bradley Stoke in Bloom (BSiB) group’s first six months, there will be a public meeting at the Jubilee Centre on Tuesday (26th November), starting at 7.30pm. As well as sharing mince pies and non-alcoholic mulled wine, the group will be sharing their progress to date and their (ambitious) plans for the future. There will also be an
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Bradley Stoke in Bloom (BSiB) is going from strength to strength with two recent big achievements, write group members Geoff Roach and Sara Messenger. We are taking part in the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) ‘In Your Neighbourhood’ scheme, which provides smaller volunteer-led community groups, such as ourselves, the opportunity to get involved with the wider Britain in Bloom initiative (which celebrates
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The Bradley Stoke In Bloom (BSiB) group is gearing up for its first project this coming Saturday (20th July) when the volunteers are planning to neaten up the public pathway that runs from Dewfalls Drive, through Wheatfield Drive and down to the edge of The Common East. Everyone is welcome to meet us at the Dewfalls Drive end of the
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