Tag: Best Front Garden Competition

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.

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…

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.”

By Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. As our annual best front garden competition is now in its seventh year, I think we can justifiably claim it is now a firm fixture in our calendar. Each year we think you can’t do any better and then you do just that! But as each year increases and each garden

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

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

An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. This is the third year we have run this competition and we are pleased that this year we had a record number of entries. Even though several gardeners told us that because of this year’s weather their gardens weren’t at their best, we were very impressed by the