Help Bury Bloom – enter the gardening and poster competition

Keen gardeners and talented young artists are invited to take part in two competitions to help the borough continue to flourish.

Gold, silver and bronze awards can be won – plus a range of other prizes donated by local business supporters.

Garden competition:

The Bury in Bloom garden competition encourages residents to use and enhance their gardening skills to help the environment and improve the appearance of our borough.

There are four categories:

• Best household front garden.
• Best street or community garden.
• Best commercial or retail display or landscaping.
• Best school environmental education garden.

Judges will score entries on overall design, benefits to wildlife, recycling, and sustainability.

Gold, silver and bronze awards will be given with special recognition for the best entry in each category. Judges will also award a discretionary award to the entrant that best reflects Britain in Bloom’s ‘Greening grey Britain’ theme.

‘Greening grey Britain’ is all about transforming hard grey areas into living, planted places that enrich lives.

The deadline for garden competition entries is Friday 17 July. For full details, and how to enter, go to:http://www.bury.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=7641

Design a poster competition:

Young people aged 4 to 16 are invited to explore their creative side and design a prize-winning poster for Bury in Bloom.

The winning poster and the best of the runners-up will be used to help promote the borough's entries in the Royal Horticultural Society's Britain and North West in Bloom competitions.

Entrants have to create a poster using paint, crayon, ink or felt pen which reflects the Britain in Bloom theme 'greening grey Britain'.The theme aims to change 6,000 grey spaces by 2017 and people can submit a pledge to turn a grey area green at the Britain in Bloom website https://www.rhs.org.uk/science/gardening-in-a-changing-world/greening-grey-britain.

Entries in the poster competition will be judged on creativity and originality, colour, and skill.

The deadline for entries is Friday 26 June. For details, and how to enter, go to:http://www.bury.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=7536

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Press release issued: 5 June 2015.