Winter planting is now complete on the Tower road green

It was winter planting day yesterday on the Tower road green.Volunteer helpers Louise, David, Gaynor, Sheila and myself along with councillor Mr Scrutan, Jazz Battu who is one of the sponsors and business owner of the Crofts dental practice and Beverley Deputy town clerk Epping town council all came along to help with the planting.The Epping in bloom team firstly had to take out all of the Summer bedding that has given the Tower road green such wonderful colourful display over the past four months.The lavender, grasses and herbs will be replanted at Market garden terrace.Angela one of our Epping in bloom volunteers will look after these plants until we are ready to replant them.The strawberry plants and the sage will be donated to Ivy Chimneys school for their raised garden beds.The geraniums where given away to passers by for replanting and some of the Epping in bloom team took some home too.

The beds and barrels have been sponsored by these six local Epping businesses and societies.

• Jennings bets
• Nicholson's lettings and sales
• Crofts Dental practice
• Epping rotary
• Tax assist
• Epping horticultral society. 

We would like to thank them all and hope they will enjoy seeing their flower bed displays grow.The business personalized plaques will be going up in the next few weeks.

 

David Buckle planted up the two wooden barrels 

that Epping horticultral society have sponsored.

Jazz Battu dentist and business owner at Crofts dental practice 

planted up the bed he sponsored.

 

Local volunteers came along on the day to offer much needed planting support to the Epping in bloom team

Councillor Mr Scruton came along to offer his support too

 

 

 

The beds that have been planted contain a combination of yellow and purple viola's and yellow and purple pansies.At the top of each bed we have planted a small very slow growing tree called Picea glauca var albertiana 'Conica' In the run up to Christmas each one will have a star and a few Christmas mini decorations placed on them for visual festive effect.

Farewell to the stag for the moment

  

      Sheila Rankin                                                         Beverlley Rumsey

 Gaynor Davies

Sheila donated the stag to Epping in bloom back in April for Sydney's Summer bed design.She will look after him in her garden until we are ready to move him to another site in Epping.Keep your eyes peeled as we will be asking you to tell us where the stag has been placed for a chance to win a prize next year.

 Under the bench we have planted some viola's

 

We shall keep you all posted on any new planting sites and look forward to hearing from anyone wanting to join the Epping in bloom team.

Please email us at eppinginbloom@gmail.com

Kind Regards

Victoria Robertson 

Chairmen 

Epping in bloom presentation evening

Last night we held a fabulous Epping in bloom presentation evening at Epping hall.60 guests came along to support Epping in bloom.Guests included the school children winners, parents, Mayor Michael Wright, Epping town Councillors, school teachers along with members of the Epping horticultural society.Together we watched a presentation screen show from the pictures I have taken over the past 4 months since the planting day in May.Together we watched all the flowers grow into lovely jammed packed colorful flower beds.David Farmer played classical music on his guitar which added an extra special touch.We set up some ambient soft colorful lighting and added some dahlia flowers onto the tables along with scented pot potpourri which filled the room with a floral aroma.

David Farmer playing his guitar to the screen show of Epping in bloom pictures

 

 

We served a wonderful selection of cakes which were mostly hand made by the Epping in bloom team

From all the tower road green design entries we received from the local schools there could only be 5 winners to represent each of the Epping schools that took part.Ivy Chimneys, Epping primary, Coppersale and Theydon Garnon, St Johns and Coopersale hall.The winners were all presented with trophies and certificates from the Mayor Michael Wright.Also all the children that won the empty water bottle flower design competition were presented with medals too.

The two community Epping in bloom competition winners were also presented with prizes too.

The Frank Family won the tallest sunflower of Epping award their sunflower grew to 10.4ft

Sonny Bazzoni won the funky shoe garden competition

Congratulations to all the school winners

View more pictures of the winners here on Everything Epping forest > https://www.flickr.com/photos/everythingeppingforest/sets/72157656291059534/

The Epping in bloom team with the winners 

The Frank family are the winners of our tallest sunflower of Epping award their sunflower grew to massive 10.4ft.

Thank you very much to everyone that brought a raffle ticket.We took an amazing amount of £110 this will go towards some of the plants next year

 

 

 

 

Thank you to everyone for your support it's been a fabulous Epping in bloom project to work on together so far.We are looking forward to bringing more flower displays and garden project idea's to Epping soon.

If you would like to become a volunteer or if you would like to be put on our Epping in bloom mailing list email us your details to eppinginbloom@gmail.com

Kind Regards

Victoria Robertson

Winter bedding planting day tower road green

The Summer bedding plants are now beginning to fade away on the tower road green.Some of the plants will be recycled and replanted at other sites like the lavender, rosemary and the grasses.To keep all of the raised beds looking nice and colorful over the winter months we are looking for some of the local businesses to sponsor a flower bed.Please email us for more details to eppinginbloom@gmail.com

We are also looking forward to planting up the beds with your help.Planting day is on Sunday 27th September on the Tower road green at 10.00am.Please come along and join in the community fun.Bring along your own gloves and planting tools.

See you there!


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