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Kendal in Bloom Competition 2013
Help us recognise all the hard work that goes into making Kendal a beautiful place to live, work and visit. Why not enter your efforts and those of others that deserve recognition. You can enter more than one category and nominate as many other gardens as you wish.
The Competition Categories are as follows:
Best Domestic Garden (Prizes for small, medium and large gardens)
Best Sustainable Garden
Best Domestic Floral Display (hanging baskets, window boxes, patio tubs etc).
Best Communal Area including Places of Worship, Community Centres and Sheltered Housing.
Best Commercial Premises including B & B, Hotels, Shops, Businesses, and Public Houses.
All entries must be within the Kendal Town Boundary. Click here to download an Entry Form. Entry forms will also be available from Kendal Town Council Office in the Town Hall, SLDC reception and Kendal Library from the end of March 2013.
All entries submitted will be judged between 24 June and 7 July 2013. Judges will leave a calling card to confirm the garden has been judged. Everyone who enters will be invited to the Award Ceremony taking place on Thursday 22 August 2013 in Kendal Town Hall Assembly Room at 7:30pm .
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Kendal in Bloom 2012
Results are as follows:
Summer School Challenge - Blooming Olympics
Joint 3rd Sandgate School
Joint 3rd Stramongate School
2nd Castle Park School
1st Heron Hill School
The Mayor of Kendal Award
Queen Katherine Community Garden
Best Secret Garden
1st Mr & Mrs Fairs, Helsington Laithes Cottages
Best Domestic Floral Display
1st Mr P Taylor, Hallgarth Circle Best Commercial Premises with Grounds
Joint 1st Summer Hill Nursing Home
Joint 1st The Brewery Arts Centre
Best Commercial Premises without Grounds
1st Ibis Sports and Social Club
Best Communal Area
1st Kent Court
Best Yard
1st Marvic Yard
Best Sustainable Garden
Mrs J Willis, The Hyena, Fountain Brow
Best Allotment Newcomer
Mrs Kelly and Miss Kelly Plot 8 Castle Drive
Best Allotment Site
Sedbergh Road
Before the ceremony, a presentation slide show of photographs of Kendal's Spring and Summer planting was 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 around the town.
The Summer School Challenge theme for this year was Blooming Olympics. Four local primary schools entered the challenge and invited the Mayor of Kendal, Cllr John Willsahw and Deputy Mayor Cllr Sylvia Emmott to visit their school gardens. The winning school was Heron Hill School.
Following the ceremony, refreshments and a light buffet were served allowing an opportunity for fellow gardeners the chance to chat and look at the photographic display boards.
Sponsorship 2013 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 2012.
Different Strokes Painting and Decorating Ltd, Gilkes, Lakeland Ltd, Blue Fin Insurance Brokers, Cumberland Building Society,Boyes, Westmorland Horticultural Society, SLDC, Kendal Civic Society,Low Orchard Nursery, Elephant Yard, The Westmorland Gazette, Gibsons of Kendal.
Cumbria in Bloom
Kendal will enter Cumbria in Bloom 2013 having taken a 2 year break to search out and
build on the comunity gardening which was an area that Kendal needed to build on. 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
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