Huntingdonshire towns scoop top awards at Anglia in Bloom

Interesting to see how the plantings filled in.

Well done, a great achievement . Our town Immingham did very well as well so I appreciate the hard work that goes into it.

Well done, great job.

Congratulations to all those who took part in creating these sites ... very attractive!

Bedding at its best.....such a lot of work!! but obviously worth it....thanks for sharing.....

Very impressive- well deserved win!

Looks really fantastic! Well done to everyone!

Thank you all for your lovely comments! :)

Our council gardeners are very underrated, they do a fantastic job of keeping our towns & cities looking lovely so we can enjoy our surrounding.

Here on the Huntingdon Town Council we have a very imaginative group of designers who have shown their worth for a number of years now.

How many people realised that this was also the 50th anniversary year of Concorde taking to the skies? All the fuss, & quite rightly, has been on the success of the first American astronauts to put boots on our satellite for the first time.

The Apollo 11 flower display sums up 2 of my greatest interests: Space & Gardening! You can see many more of my pictures on gardening displays in my Flickr group:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/public_garden_displays/

Well deserved Balcony, the displays look amazing , Stamford in Bloom did well also, ours are mainly volunteers, my daughter and I look after a little stone circle, every little helps doesn't it..Thankyou for sharing...

Lincs, I think you will find the majority of people who work on the "- in Bloom" places are volunteers. Certainly they are here in Huntingdon.

At the beginning of the summer I saw several ladies planting up the troughs in the shops carpark alongside our flats! The District Council have cut back on flower displays in the last few years & the carpark here is one place that has suffered from these cutbacks.

The Town Council have gone the opposite way & during the last few years have put up some lovely displays!

The flowerbed in the gardens of our block of flats seems to have been planted up as a single permanent bed as they planted it up last November with what seemed a poor display yet in the spring 100s of white Daffs appeared & lasted for quite some time. As the summer advanced other plants appeared! Instead of lifting the Daffs this year they just cut the foliage back, they have never done that before in the nearly 20 years we have lived here! Unless I'm wrong they won't plant anything this November but the bed will regenerate the same display from next spring.

It's good that the community has pulled together to create these beautiful displays :)

Unfortunately, Hywel, none of the pictures here are done by the community. :( They are all done by our District Council or the Town Council.

I'll upload a couple of pictures I have of the troughs in the local shops car park which were planted up by our local "in Bloom" group.

I see. When I read that judges praised the high level of community participation I thought the town people had made the displays.

I don't really know what they mean by "high level of community participation". I, personally, haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary. Except that one evening when I saw a few ladies putting plants in the first trough from the left in the shops carpark I haven't seen anything else.

I don't just mean in the gardening aspect of the competition, important though that is, but also the cleanness of the town. For instance in the course of this year graffiti has raised its ugly head once again but nothing has been done to remove it & I've not read in the local paper that anyone has been caught doing it either.

I've seen people out & about in hi-vis jackets litter picking but they are more likely to be from the District Council than volunteers - though I may be wrong.

We have litter pickers here too, and they are from the council. Some people just throw it down anywhere and it blows around in the wind.
I haven't seen graffiti for a while.