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.

Local business

This year local businesses have really got behind the campaign to offer support. As well as our main sponsor Serco, Denne Construction paid for the committee to purchase a small bowser so that the Mortimer Street business community can water and maintain troughs and planters in that area.

Kent County Council and Outdoor Leisure have sponsored 66 barrier troughs and 50 bollard planters that have been put up throughout the town. Over 40 businesses are helping to water and maintain them over the summer.

Broomfield Woodland park and BMX Track

In 2008 Herne and Broomfield Parish Council began a project to create a Community Woodland Park on a former landfill site. A regional competition standard BMX track has been constructed, which is the first of its kind in Kent. This project also provides the local community with a quality public open space with opportunities for informal recreation, enjoying wildlife, and enjoying the view.

Tree and hedge planting has been carried out and is establishing well. The site receives support from Kent County Council, Entrust, SERCO, and the city council.