Blooming Great Results for Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury has proved that it is a blooming great place once again after achieving the highest possible accolade in the RHS’s Heart of England in Bloom It’s Your Neighbourhood and Parks & Open Spaces Awards. In the It’s Your Neighbourhood awards, three areas; Bowbrook Allotment Community, Hermitage Garden Group and Severn Hospice in Bicton Heath…
Shrewsbury Scoops Gold in Floral Competition
Shrewsbury’s floral features have been declared blooming brilliant after being awarded Gold in the RHS Heart of England in Bloom competition. The results were announced at an awards ceremony in Warwick on Thursday. Shrewsbury achieved Gold in the Small City category in the competition. The Heart of England in Bloom have also nominated Shrewsbury to…
Awards for Shrewsbury Pupil’s Blooming Great Designs
Pupils from Priory School were presented with awards to mark their winning designs for two floral features within the town. Chairman of Shrewsbury in Bloom, Councillor Keith Roberts, presented prizes to youngsters from the school who had worked on a five week community participation project, in conjunction with Young Shrewsbury (Shrewsbury Town Council’s Youth Services…
Nominations Sought for Blooming Marvellous Front Gardens
The Shrewsbury in Bloom Committee is inviting members of the public to nominate their green-fingered neighbours for the Town of Flowers competition. They are looking for entries in the best residential front garden category. The annual competition is open to residents’ front gardens only and must be located within Shrewsbury Town Council’s 17 wards. For…
Shrewsbury’s Bid to be Crowned Blooming Best
Shrewsbury welcomes the Heart of England in Bloom judges today [WEDS] when they will be judging the town’s floral excellence against exacting criteria. Shrewsbury Town Council is leading Shrewsbury’s floral charge, with the support of members of the Shrewsbury in Bloom committee which includes a number of community volunteers and council officers from both the…
Shrewsbury in Bloom Filmed for New BBC Two Series
Shrewsbury in Bloom is one of 15 Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Britain in Bloom and It’s Your Neighbourhood groups being filmed as part of a new BBC Two Series about the quintessentially British gardening competition. The series will be broadcast in 2018. Now in its 53rd year, this is the first time cameras have followed…
Blooming Business Baskets are a Bargain
Shops and businesses in Shrewsbury are being asked to help maintain the town’s reputation as “the Town of Flowers” by displaying hanging baskets prepared by Shrewsbury Town Council. Every year the workforce at the Town Council’s Weeping Cross greenhouse spend months preparing tens of thousands of flowers to make the town’s streets and open spaces…