Oakham in Bloom Oakham Primary Schools Poster Competition Winners

Oakham in Bloom Oakham Primary Schools Poster Competition Winners

Oakham in Bloom, Uppingham in Bloom, East Midlands in Bloom, Winners

Oakham won gold award in the town category and Uppingham, won a silver gilt award.

The volunteers do a great job here in Oakham making our town look good. With their

interestingly planted flower beds especially the one outside the library.

Oakham Town Council provide the horrid hanging baskets. 

I have often wondered though why as a town we always seem to win these Bloom

prizes, as I and others often see many fantastic displays in other towns who don't 

win.

Then  I found out why, Oakham was nominated by East Midland in Bloom for 

Britain in Bloom and the local tell us, there are only eight other nominations for 

Britain in Bloom and that's taken from the whole country. The simple fact is those

other towns don't even bother entering their own regional contests.

This year Oakham Town Council spent a fortune on new "ugly" hanging baskets.

The judges have gone and the watering contract appears to have ended and we 

are left with some quite shabby looking planters and the baskets that had reached

their prime and are now slowly drying out.

As for the watering, I can not understand why Oakham Town Council thought

it was good to buy those new pots/baskets  the supplier said they require less watering

so why does the Town Council pay them £6,000 for watering? Costing three times as 

much as previous years?