New Residents Move Into My Garden

I always wondered where all the birds would nest once the all the hedges had been removed and replaced with fences.

I attempted to do some gardening and for the first time I can't find a bush or shrub in my garden without a nest.

Spring Flowers Oakham in full bloom Photographs

Red Tulips

 

Daffodils

 

 

Hyacinth

Oakham in Bloom and Oakham Town Council Baskets

Queen and Prince Charles
at RHS Flower Show

Image by Getty Images

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen dislikes driving into a village or town  and seeing basket after basket of Petunias, when he travels with his work for the Royal Horticultural Society. I wonder if it because of the link to tobacco? the flower is from the same family. obviously you can't smoke it or we would have some wonderful coloured cigars. The popular flower derived its name from French, which took the word Petunia, meaning "tobacco,"

Is this why Oakham has not won Britain in Bloom?

Personally I think the garden centre provides this assortment of flowers

because they are cheap and easy to put together and makes the

annual contract running in thousands of pound very profitable.

(Kevin O'Brian Gaol Street is a big supporter of

Oakham in Bloom)

Of course if Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen was

to drive to Oakham and not look up

he would see the wonderful work done

by Oakham in Bloom this year we have seen

a creation of many new beds full of a good

mixture of more interesting plants and shrubs

In October the contract for providing the baskets runs out.

The Town Council who organise the contract will discuss

renewal of the contract at a meeting during that month.

I would like to see Oakham in Bloom take over the contract

and possible fit containers around the base of lamp posts.

And plant them with the same plants they use in beds.

Some people may have noticed there has been a issue with

placement of baskets this year after some have

fallen or been pulled down down.

Please don't  forget if you have a view tell the Town Council.

 

• Try These Ideas for a Flower Hanging Basket in the Patio Garden (flowergardens.suite101.com)
• Rare Blue Flower Discovered Blooming on British Farm (treehugger.com)

Oakham In Bloom Spring 2010