Blooming Lovely Winners

A green fingered couple who ‘adopted’ a piece of council land in the middle of a village housing estate are winners in a new gardening competition.

John and Sheila Templeton took one of the prizes in the Richmondshire District Council contest.  They created a garden on a piece of unwanted land near their Brompton on Swale home and were judged for that as well as their own garden.

Council tenants in Richmondshire had been encouraged to make their gardens look blooming lovely this summer for a brand new competition to find the best gardens, window boxes, tubs, baskets, borders and vegetable patches.  They had a month to get their plots into top condition before they were ‘mystery judged’.

They were judged in the five areas of the district – Central, Garrison, Lower Wensleydale, North Richmondshire and Upper Dales.

“We created this competition to recognise the efforts that our tenants make to brighten up their streets and estates by creating and maintaining lovely gardens,” said Councillor Peter Wood, Member for Housing.

“It was a very hard task deciding who were the winners because there were so many excellent and colourful displays.  Congratulations must go to them all.” 

The prizewinners were:

Central – 1^st Mr and Mrs Templeton; Joint 2^nd Mr R Elliott - Brompton on Swale, Mr and Mrs S Ward - Sleegill

Garrison – 1^st Mr D Brown – Hipswell; 2^nd Mr and Mrs E Walsh - Colburn, Joint 3^rd Mr and Mrs F Hill - Colburn, Mr S Beattie - Colburn

Lower Wensleydale – Joint 1^st Mr and Mrs J McGregor - Redmire,  Mr and Mrs A Worboys – Harmby; 3^rd Mrs E Brown - Harmby

North Richmondshire – 1^st Mr and Mrs J Dixon - Aldborough St John;  2^nd Mr R Carter - Croft on Tees; 3^rd Mr and Mrs B Swantson - North Cowton

Upper Dales – 1^st Mr and Mrs G Frankland – Reeth; 2^nd Mr and Mrs D Bastow – Reeth; 3^rd Mrs M Whitehead - Reeth

October 18, 2011