Sherborne In Bloom judging day

All the entrants in the ‘In Bloom’ competition in the South West are visited by judges appointed by the Royal Horticultural Society. They don’t give much notice of when they are coming so we don’t have much time to prepare.

On the day the judges want to see as much of the town as possible so we took them on a tour designed to show off our town at its best.

Last year we started off at the Castle Orangery where we met the judges and talked them through the projects we had under way. Then we took them on a tour of the town so that they could see the adopt-a-plots and the other floral displays en route.  We ended up at the Cheap Street Church Hall where we had an exhibition of photography of 350 gardens in the town, with prizes awarded for the local ‘Growing For Gold’ competition.

Here are some snaps of that day: