Results of South & South East in Bloom 2012 Competition

HBIB Team at Fareham with winning certificates and trophies 

Pam Hobbs & Joyce Phillips receiving Gold Award for Receulver Country Park

The Herne Bay in Bloom team attended Fareham on 13th September for the presentation of the 2012 South & South East in Bloom Awards.

We were awarded a Silver Gilt award and overall category winner for our main entry in the Large  Coastal Town section.We also entered other categories separately and were very pleased to get a Gold Award for the Reculver Country Park, - a particularly good achievement as this was a first time entry -Silver Gilt for the War Memorial Park and Silver Gilt for Herne Bay Cemetery.

We are now looking forward to attending the RHS Britain in Bloom Awards being held on 6th October in Guernsey where we hope to gain more successes.

Results of HBIB "Beat the Drought Competition"

Thank you to everyone who entered our "Beat The Drought" competition which was launched in April after the announcement of the hosepipe ban in the South East by Southern and South East Water Companies.

We are please to announce that the winner of the £50 prize and the water butt and compost bin donated by Canterbury City Council was Terry Jewis of Calcott Hill Sturry,

He submitted a very comprehensive entry which demonstrated his systems of collecting and saving rain water from various roofs,from waste water from the dishwasher and washing machines and how he fed the filtered water by gravity using the slope of his patio to use on his vegetable beds.

He finishes his entry by saying " Apart from searching the internet for the red inline water filter the whole scheme hasn't cost me a penny. It has been made from bits and pieces and items I have been given or left over from other projects and I have reduced my water bill by about 40% and saved litres of water."

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Giant Picnic Pictures

The Giant Picnic was a great success - lots of sunshine and lots of fun.

Have a look our picture gallery, and see how many of the smiling faces you recognise...

Giant Picnic 2012 Sunday 26th August 11am - 3pm

 Herne Bay in Bloom are very fortunate to have secured funding courtesy of Herne Bay KCC Councillors supplemented by Herne Bay Rotary Club to once again organise this marvellous family event in our regenerated Memorial Park. There will be many FREE activities for all the family provided by 30+ voluntary organisations ranging from creating your own piece of art,playing rounders,singing along with a rock choir,seeing how high you can jump and how fast you can run and planting Mr Cress Heads to making heart cushions for breast cancer patients. In fact something for everyone!

Live music from U'Zambesi,Jezreels Ceilidh Band and  a display from Da Vinci Dance all compered by local musician David Shepherd will really get the party going.

So bring a picnic and all the family and tell all your friends to come along to enjoy an absolutely fantastic day.

We are grateful for the support of all our sponsors  including  KCC, Herne Bay Rotary ,Herne Bay Town Partners,Canterbury City Council Festival personel  and "People United" charity for enabling us to help make Herne Bay a better place.

Gardening Competition 2012 Results

The Rose Inn Mortimer Street"My Favourite Aspect" Photograph First Prize Winner Mr & Mrs D CrossMr Brown 8 Hadleigh Gardens Magnificent Blooms 

HERNE BAY IN BLOOM

GARDENING COMPETITION 2012

RESULTS

CATEGORY 1. PRIVATE FRONT GARDEN under 15sq ͫ

1^st Mr Brown 8 Hadleigh Gardens

2^nd Mrs J Clack 33 Queensbridge Drive

3^rd Mr V Rogers & Ms S Earwaker 10 Hanover Street

CATEGORY 2. PRIVATE FRONT GARDEN over 15sq ͫ

1^st Mrs C Willis 91 Reculver Road

2^nd Mr &Mrs J Foad 211 Canterbury Road

3^rd Mrs Dawn Hougham 20 Gainsborough Drive

CATEGORY 3. WINDOW BOX or CONTAINER DISPLAY

1^st Mr & Mrs D Cross Estreham 1 Mickleburgh Hill

2^nd Mr Brown 8 Hadleigh Gardens

3^rd Mr & Mrs R Kennard 2 Hawe Farm Way

CATEGORY 4. HANGING BASKETS

1^st Mr Brown 8 Hadleigh Gardens

2^nd David & Penny Townsend 23 Richmond Drive

3^rd Mrs C Willis 91 Reculver Road

CATEGORY 5. PLACE OF WORSHIP

1^st St Peter's Church Greenhill

2^nd St Bartholomew's Church King Edward Avenue

3^rd Broomfield United Reform Church The Meadows

CATEGORY 6. DESIGN SEAFRONT GARDEN BED (11 yrs & under) “My Favourite Flower”

1^st Emily O'Donnell Briary School

2^nd Jamie Jones Briary School

3^rd Alisdair Goldstraw Briary School

CATEGORY 7. PUBLIC HOUSE/RESTAURANT/GUEST HOUSE/B&B

1^st The Rose Inn Mortimer Street

2^nd The Heron Station Road

3^rd The Huntsman & Horn Broomfield

CATEGORY 8. COMMUNAL (residential or non-residential)

1^st Richmond Court Richmond Street

2^nd Roselands Care Home 50 Reculver Drive

3^rd Oaklands Court Kings Road

CATEGORY 9. SCHOOL GROUNDS (Infants/Junior)

1^st Reculver CE School

2^nd Herne Infants School

3^rd Herne Junior School

CATEGORY 10. SCHOOL GROUNDS (Nursery)

1^st Little Acorns Nursery School Herne

2^nd Herne Infants School

3^rd Avenue Nursery Park Life Centre Kings Road

CATEGORY 11. ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT

1^st Mrs Karen Simpson 53 Hillman Ave Studd Hill

2^nd Herne CE Junior School

3^rd Herne CE Infants School

H/C Herne Infants Nursery

CATEGORY 12. COMMERCIAL (non Industrial/Individual Run Shop/Office/Medical Practice

1^st The Old Firm Mortimer Street

2^nd Connaught Bingo Central Parade

3^rd Miles Butchers Reculver Rd Beltinge

CATEGORY 13. Allotment Plot

1^st Tom Russell (Plot Eddington Site

2^nd Pat Anderson (Plot Cross St Site)

3^rd Les Tilbury (Plot Eddington Site)

H/C Bob Hudson (Plot Eddington Site)

H/C Ron Bavin (Plot Eddington Lane Site)

CATEGORY 14. PHOTOGRAPH “Favourite Aspect of Your Garden”

1^st Mr & Mrs D Cross

2^nd Mr Julian Jennings

3^rd Mr Edmund Moore

Carpet Bedding Seafront Diamond Jubilee Display

Sarah's original designThis delightful display, which was the designed by the winner of the Herne Bay in Bloom gardening competition 2011 , click on image for full viewSarah Pugsley aged 11 from Reculver CE School, has now been planted.

We are grateful to CCC Streetscene & Outdoor Leisure and Serco for the sponsorship of this project which is in a prominent area seen by many visitors to the town with its setting in pleasant gardens providing a pleasing view of the sea and pier entrance.

"B" is for "Blooming Bay" Planting up the Town

New Bollard Planters beside The Rose Inn (click on image for full view)Volunteers Planting three tier container in Mortimer St (click on image for full view)This week the town has started to burst into bloom. The Friends of Herne Bay in Bloom  work party have been busy taking delivery of plants grown  on for them by Meadow Grange Nurseries since the early Spring

They have cleared all the planters in Mortimer Street and planted them with a "red white and blue" theme. In addition they have planted and supplied Mortimer Street,Sea Street and Beltinge village shopkeepers with  80+ pots for display outside their premises. They have also replanted our large four -tier planter on Eddington roundabout.

Serco have installed the many barrier troughs and bollard planters for us throughout the town as well as the attractive Basket Tree outside The Rose Inn in Mortimer Street. These have also been grown on for us by Meadow Grange Nurseries and are already making a striking display.

We have a willing group of shopkeepers and residents to whom we give free watering cans who then volunteer to water containers and troughs near to their premises but we are always looking for more helpers to water,dead-head and help maintain our colourful displays ensuring that they stay healthy and fresh for the whole season.Please register through this website if you can help in anyway.

Serco have offered to water displays that are not near to any residents and Vanessa Field  of The Old Firm in Mortimer Street with a small group of friends operates our water bowser,donated by Denne Construction and CoPlan Designs last year, to water the planters within the Mortimer Street precinct area.

The Herne Bay in Bloom team would like to thank all our supporters,volunteers and sponsors for all their hard work so far this year. Our judging dates are booked for South & South East in Bloom on 19th July and Britain in Bloom for the 30th July so here's to another "Blooming" successful outcome this year.

Strode Park Foundation - Planting up Containers for Diamond Jubilee Fete

Planted urn as seen on 4th June on day of the feteVolunteers planting up an urn at Strode ParkVolunteers planting raised beds at the theatre Strode ParkThe Herne Bay in Bloom team were invited to plan the planting for the seven urns in the central fountain area of  the garden  and the three raised beds in the theatre seating area for the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee Fete organised by the Herne and Broomfield Parish Council on 4th June.

Members of the Herne Bay in Bloom committee assisted by volunteers from the Herne Horticultural & Rose Society and friends,helpers and residents of Strode Park spent an enjoyable morning at the beginning of May planting up the containers on a red,white and blue theme .

Beltinge Village Queen's Avenue corner

Herne Bay in Bloom volunteers clearing the Queen's Ave area

A group of volunteers and residents led by Herne Bay in Bloom Friends Co-ordinator Joyce Phillips have recently been hard at work clearing the overgrown corner of Queen's Avenue / Reculver Road beside The Rising Sun. It has been seeded with an Urban Meadow mix of  perennial and annual of flowers plus some other Spring flowering bulbs and some large stones have been placed round it to stop any damage by parking vehicles.

Hopefully it will be a blaze of colour come mid Summer. If anyone knows of any similar area that requires assistance with tidying. weeding etc please contArea now cleared and reseeded(Click on images for full viewact Herne Bay in Bloom Secretary via this website.

Hampton Green Seaside Garden

Hampton Green Seaside Garden(with blue waves surrounded by golden sand) Please click on the image for full view

This lovely seaside garden has now been completed  thanks to the hard work of Peter Buscall and his band of willing workers from Family Investment Homes who are based at Elham Valley Vineyards.

We all think it looks stunning and a lovely lady who was walking her dog passed whilst we were up there last week stopped us and said" Thank you for making this garden we stop every time we pass and it really makes our day."

High praise indeed -  and we at Herne Bay in Bloom are really pleased that this is the effect that it has because it really makes our day as well to think that all the hard work  that has gone into it is appreciated.

We hope all the residents and visitors to the Hampton Leisure gardens continue to enjoy the  garden as it developes over the next few years