- Council considers new games area for young people in Ham
- ‘Drop in’ and find out more about your Village Plan
- Online one-stop-shop for Council services launched
- Keep busy this summer
- Take part in your own road race
- Be inspired by the Olympics
- Children’s centres open for summer
- Be a part of Orleans House Gallery’s Big 40
- Richmond Youth Council wants you
- Carers offered a well deserved break
- Mayor gets into the Olympic spirit
- Richmond overwhelmed by 120 Olympics volunteering applications
- Plans approved to consider integrated health and social care services
- Richmond outlines new priorities for community safety
- Council confirms £400,000 extra cash for new Community Road and Pavement Fund
- Stay Safe During The Games
- Residents asked about proposed changes to Council Tax benefit
- Cabinet agrees funding for Sixth Forms
- First Volunteering Richmond Roadshows
- School opens for summer
- Richmond's registration services go online
- Business start-ups offered ‘pop up’ shop in Richmond
- Council service delivery during the Olympics
- Crane Park scoops Green Flag Award
- Playbeach back for the summer
- Richmond in Bloom winners dazzle judges
- Over 500 primary school places approved for the borough
- Heathrow expansion no more viable today than in 2010
- Olympics museum display wins Civic Pride funding
- Youngsters capture spirit of Paralympics in poetry
- Deadline is looming to nominate for dignity in care locally
- Hampton carer to carry Olympic flame
- Last call for Olympic Volunteers
- It’s Showtime
- Summer events announced for new-look Twickenham Riverside
- Scholarship boost for aspiring students
- Community spirit at Heatham House
- Be a good neighbour during the Olympics
- Richmond Children’s Services Director gets new post
- Major plans to revitalise Twickenham take a step closer
- New facilities for children with SEN
- Complaints against parking services at an all time low
- Parking during the Olympic Games
- Hampton North set for regeneration boost
- Community spirit gets funding
- Take part in Summer Reading Challenge
- Team Richmond celebrate Games triumph
- All in One Village Plans to launch this week
Release Date: 16/07/2012
Richmond in Bloom winners dazzle judges
Keen gardeners around Richmond upon Thames have been honoured for their vibrant blooms and manicured flower beds in the latest Richmond Borough in Bloom awards.
Winners were announced on 11 July, with categories spanning everything from best front garden to best hotel or pub.
The Richmond Borough in Bloom committee gave this year’s competition a Diamond Jubilee theme by encouraging local residents and businesses to plant flowers in the royal colours of gold, purple, crimson and white.
Local gardeners have also faced extraordinary weather conditions this year, contending with a hosepipe ban earlier in the year followed by one of the wettest summers on record.
The annual Richmond Borough in Bloom contest aims to keep the borough beautiful and vibrant, and is sponsored by a range of businesses as well as receiving funding from Richmond Council.
Cllr Virginia Morris, Richmond Council’s Strategic Cabinet Member for Environment, said:
“This has been another fantastic year for Richmond Borough in Bloom, in which local residents and businesses have excelled at showcasing the borough in creative displays of colour.
“In this Diamond Jubilee and Olympic year, the spotlight will be on Richmond more than ever before. Not only do we have the upcoming cycling events and torch relay, but we are also expecting an influx of Olympics tourists visiting our landmark sites such as Kew Gardens and Hampton Court Palace.
“Thanks to the creativity and talents of our green-fingered community, Richmond upon Thames is sure to put on a spectacular show of colourful blooms for our international guests.”
Pat Schooling, Committee Chairman of Richmond in Bloom said:
“The standard of entries this year has been as high as ever, which is quite remarkable in view of the weather conditions that made gardening so difficult. We have made 124 awards across nine categories for residents, community centres, pubs and shops. Many of them have contributed to the street scene in our borough villages and high streets with lovely floral displays which add to the pleasure of shopping.”
Richmond Borough in Bloom category winners include: Christine Arnold, of Ham, for best front garden; Robert Tuhey, East Sheen, best residential frontage; Michael and Elizabeth Earle, East Sheen, best park and bloom; Sheen Court in Richmond, best block of flats; Michel’s Almshouses, Richmond, best community building; The White Swan Twickenham, best hotel or pub; Sandy’s Fishmongers, Twickenham, best business premises; Nicola Wallington, Twickenham, Richmond & Twickenham Times Award; Zoe and George Varnava, Ham, Serco Award for Best Environmental Garden or Project.
Winners are set to take part in a formal presentation ceremony on 2 October.
Some of the top-performing gardens and displays from the Richmond Borough in Bloom competition were also on show in a London-wide contest on 4 and 5 July when judges visited from London in Bloom. Results from this competition are expected to be announced later in the summer.
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