Kendal Town Cumbria - Kendal in Bloom

Kendal in Bloom

News and notices
Sun16th Oct 2011 -The Rotary Club of Kendal planted 10,000 yellow and purple crocus bulbs on Windermere road at the entrance to the town. This follows on from a similar number planted on Milnthorpe road outside Stonecross Manor Hotel last year and were much admired. Working in partnership with the Town Council, and Kendal in Bloom it is hoped that eventually all the main entrances to the town will have similar displays. The crocus should appear in early spring next year.
crocus planting 1
crocus planting 5

crocus bulbs planted by rotary club For many years Rotary have been focusing on eradicating polio with  there 'Our Thanks for Life' project. Polio is now endemic in only 4 countries and will continue to strive for total elimination. When a child is immunised, their finger is dipped in purple dye. The purple crocus is a reminder of that project as well as enhancing the roadside each spring time.

Kendal in Bloom Competition 2011
Everyone who entered or were nominated were invited to attend the Kendal in Bloom Awards Ceremony which was held on Thursday 25th August at 7:30 pm in the Town Hall.
Results are as follows

Summer School Challenge - Blooming Wild Life
3rd Castle Park School
2nd Sandgate School
1st Dean Gibson School
dean gibson school for website

School Challenge to create a wild life picture
Runner up Josh Hardy Stramongate School
Overall winner Callum Atherton Castle Park School
winner of painting competition

callums butterfly

The Mayor of Kendal Award
Queen Katherine School Community Garden

Best Secret Garden
3rd Mrs T Doherty - Yard 127 Stricklandgate
Joint 2nd Mr & Mrs Towers, Curson Rise & Mr Bell, Larch Grove
1st Mr & Mrs Fairs, Helsington Laithes Cottages

Best Domestic Floral Display
3rd Mr & Mrs Johnson Vicarage Drive
2nd Miss J Hall Buttery Well Road
1st Mr P Taylor, Hallgarth Circle

Best Commercial Premises with Grounds
3rd The Heron Inn
2nd Summer Hill Nursing Home
1st The Brewery Arts Centre

Best Commercial Premises without Grounds
3rd HIghgate Carpets
2nd Castle Inn
1st Ibis Sports and Social Club

Best Communal Area
3rd Pembroke Court
2nd Kent Court
1st Yard 127 Stricklandgate

Best Yard
3rd Websters Yard
2nd Yard 127 Stricklandgate
1st Marvic Yard

Best Domestic Gardens - Small
3rd Mrs L Slater Kirkbarrow
2nd Mr & Mrs Bentham, Capt French Lane
1st Mr & Mrs Parkin, Heron Close

Medium
3rd Mrs T Jackson High Park Caravan Park
2nd Mr P Taylor Hallgarth Circle
1st Mr & Mrs Cane Vicarage Drive

Large
3rd Mr P Dawson Kirkbie Green
2nd Mr N Murphy Wasdale Close
1st Ms F Davenport Oxenholme Road

Prizes and certificates were presented to the winners and runners up at the Kendal in Bloom Awards evening held at Kendal Town Hall Assembly Room. Before the ceremony, a presentation slide show of photographs of Kendal's Spring and Summer plantingwas shown including the 1000's of spring bulb daffodils and crocus planted along Kendal's road sides, parks and open spaces. There were photographs of the beautiful floral planters and hanging baskets that have been planted up with begonias, geraniums and trailing lobeila.

The Summer School Challenge theme for this year was Blooming Wild Life Challenge. Six local primary schools entered the challenge and invited the Mayor of Kendal, Cllr Jonathan Brook and the leader of SLDC Cllr Sylvia Emmott to look around their school gardens. The winning school was Dean Gibson School. A separate art competition to create a picture of an insect that is attracted to gardens was won by Callum Hardy of Castle Park school who won a gift voucher and a gardening hamper for his school.

Following the ceremony, refreshments anda light buffet were served allowing an opportunity for fellow gardeners the chance to chat and look at the photographic display boards.

Sponsorship 2011

Kendal in Bloom would not be possible without the support and sponsorship of local businesses for the town's planters and baskets. It is with their help that the Kendal floral displays look wonderful throughout the year and makes Kendal an even more attractive place to work, live and visit.

If you or your business would like to make a donation or sponsor one of the floral display, or perhaps donate a raffle prize or sponsor a category in the KiB Competition then please click here to print a sponsorship form. Return with your donation to The Town Clerk, Kendal Town Council, Town Hall, Highgate, KENDAL LA9 4DL .

Thank you to the following for their kind sponsorship for Kendal in Bloom 2011.

Different Strokes Painting and Decorating Ltd, Gilkes, Lakeland Ltd, Kendal College, Blue Fin Insurance Brokers, Cumberland Building Society,Boyes, Westmorland Horticultural Society, SLDC, Kendal Civic Society,Low Orchard Nursery, Elephant Yard, The Westmorland Gazette.

Kendal's entry into Cumbria in Bloom

Kendal's entry into Cumbria in Bloom

Kendal was judged by Cumbria in Bloom judges on Tuesday 13 July 2010. The judges were taken on a tour of the Town's shopping centre, residential and commercial premises, church grounds, parks, allotments, community gardens, recycling centres, domestic gardens and local businesses.

Kendal came Runner-up to Whitehaven with a Silver Gilt Award in the Best Large Town Category. In the Awards for Special Nominations, Best Residential Home Category, Kent Court Residential Home came
Runner-up.

To visit Cumbria in Bloom website click on this link. www.cumbria-in-bloom.org.uk

If you wish to view the Judges' comments from Britain in Bloom 2009, please click here

In 1999 the Town Council reinstated its Kendal in Bloom competitions and they have grown year on year in terms of the number of competitors who have been attracted to enter. 2006 was a particularly memorable year with Kendal being awarded first place in the Cumbria in Bloom competition for large towns and in 2007, 2008 and 2009 we won a Silver Award for Best Large Town/Small City in Britain in Bloom.