On 17th July 2023, our Assessors Jean Airey and Liz Auld visited Seatoller House in Borrowdale as part of the Royal Horticultural Society It’s Your Neighbourhood scheme. Beautiful Guest House in Borrowdale near KeswickSeatoller House is a beautiful guest house seven miles south of Keswick at the head of Borrowdale. It will be 400 years …
In June 2023 our Year 4 pupils have been working with Nestle on a social enterprise project called Bright Stars. The children decided they would like to grow and sell vegetables to people in the local area. They have also raised funds for both their Bright Stars venture and The Salvation Army by making and …
Bright Stars Project St Michael’s School, Dalston Read More »
Our Vice President, Alan Heath, visited the Cumbria in Bloom plot at Tatton Park Flower Show 2023. He inspected the plot designed by Danny Poland and developed in conjunction with Cumbria Wildlife Trust, of which Danny is a Trustee. The concept for Danny’s plot was to show how gardeners can introduce a small area, perhaps …
Vice President Alan Heath Visits CiB Plot at Tatton Park Flower Show Read More »
This was a very interesting zoom seminar. I will add more to this later, but for now here are the slides. https://cumbria-in-bloom.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/13.06.2023_Peat-Free.pdf
We have received a number of entries to our 2023 King Charles III Coronation Award Feature. Click this link to read all about the entries. https://cumbria-in-bloom.org.uk/king-charles-III-coronation-feature/
On Thursday 20th April 2023 nearly the whole team of CiB Judges/Assessors met in the Shakespeare Centre, Kendal for a day touring the town, learning about assessing and interacting with each other. The pictures that follow will provide a flavour of the day. This was the day that we received our new HighVis jackets. They …
Cumbria in Bloom Assessors in Kendal for Training Day Read More »
The RHS has launched a new grant – the RHS Connected Communities – Network Development Grant which is open to Britain in Bloom and It’s Your Neighbourhood groups. Applications will open at 10am on Wednesday 5th April and close at 5pm on Tuesday 2nd May. Grants of between £1,000 and £5,000 will be available to support groups to create new, …
Works to plant 71 trees along prominent roadside verges in Barrow have now been completed. Tree planting sites include Abbey Road, Portland Crescent, Brathay Crescent, Island Road (Cavendish Park) and Ormsgill Community Centre (Millstone Avenue). We secured £228,000 of funding following a successful application to the Forestry Commission’s Local Authority Treescapes Fund (LATF) to undertake …
Tree-mendous boost for Barrow as planting works complete Read More »
Back in 2021 DEFRA announced that they had given the green light to the development of a coastal forest in Cumbria. This was great news because once established, the forest will help the battle against the collapse in biodiversity and establish a store of carbon during the lifetime of the forest. It is hoped that …
Britain in Bloom is the largest horticultural campaign in the UK. First held in 1963 and initiated by the then British Tourist Board it followed a French model started in 1959.
