An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. We were again bowled over by the exceptionally high standard of the 14 gardens that entered our annual Best Front Garden (BFG) competition; I, personally, was as green as their immaculate lawns! Some were new and some were old favourites, some were large and some were small, but they were
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Like many of you, we were rather fed up of staring at grubby traffic cones forlornly guarding muddy piles at the Aztec West roadworks, so we’ve started a new project which we call the ‘Aztec Triangle.’ We know it’s more of a trapezoid or an irregular quadrilateral than a triangle,
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Sadly, some of our work has been the target of vandalism in recent weeks, both at the Twinned Roundabout (bottom of Brook Way) and The Common East. Twinned Roundabout We, and many of the town’s residents, were hugely disappointed to see that our beehive was again targeted by vandals and
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Twinned roundabout Winter may have been a quiet time for our ‘in bloom’ group, but it seems that spring is not! Spurred on by the Twinning Association visit by a party from Champs-sur-Marne, we bought forward our April workday so that we could include the group in our
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Winter is a quiet time for an In Bloom group. Apart from tidy ups, planning and eating biscuits, there seems little for us to do. We have been keeping busy though, and have been planting bulbs around the town which are already beginning to show. Although not strictly
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. By the time our October workday arrived, I think we were on ‘Plan D’ or maybe even ‘E’, but a plan is still a plan! We returned to the rose garden on Brook Way (just north of the doctors’ surgery) and seven of us, including newbie Emma, spent
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Our community herb garden has had a spruce up, as have our welcome planters. We had given up waiting for our planter at the Aztec Roundabout to be put back in place, so Andy and I did it ourselves, which was no mean feat. Even Andy wondered just
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. We were bowled over by the number of lovely gardens that we saw while judging our annual Best Front Garden competition, including some that didn’t enter this year but have been persuaded to enter next year! As the number and standard of gardens increases each year so does
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. What we lacked in numbers on our June workday, we made up for in other ways. We spent the morning at the Willow Brook Centre, tending our planters in the town square. Our heuchera planter is doing well, now all the vine weevil larvae have been removed, and
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. I’m sure many of us will have been out tending our own gardens over the last few weekends, so I hope you will give some thought to entering our annual ‘Best Front Garden’ competition. 2015 was our third year running this competition and although we only had eight entries
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