Wokingham

Now in its ninth year, Wokingham Borough Council’s mayor Cllr Annette Drake has launched this year’s colour and cheer gardening competition.

The annual Wokingham council-run competition has something for all the Wokingham borough’s gardeners - from local residents, community groups to pub landlords, businesses and shopkeepers.

The Wokingham competition goes from strength to strength each year and aims to reward gardeners who work hard to brighten up their local community. And Cllr Annette Drake is hoping that this year the usually already impressive crop of entries will be swelled by more people nominating modest gardeners whose hard work has impressed them in their street or while travelling around the borough.

The competition - sponsored by the Wokingham Times’ Series and supported by Foster Wheeler Ltd and Millgate Homes - has two categories for green-fingered residents who make a real effort to turn their front gardens into a dazzling display to bring cheer to neighbours and passers-by:

· Best presented front garden for summer display
· Best presented front garden that gives all-year-round interest.

Prizes are also awarded in the following categories:

· Best shop or small business frontage
· Best pub frontage.

The competition is open to all within the Wokingham borough and the closing date is Friday July 6.

Wokingham Cllr Drake said: “So many people are proud to live in the Wokingham borough. Each year our residents are immensely impressed by the wonderful colourful gardens in the local communities, which make the borough such a nice place to live and work. So many hours are dedicated to these wonderful gardens and I hope that many green-fingered gardeners will be encouraged to enter this competition.”

Entry forms will be printed in the Wokingham Times’ Series’ newspapers and will also be available from the borough council’s civic offices and libraries in the borough or by calling the mayor’s secretary Ann Marie Bonwick on (0118) 974 6004.

Wokingham Borough Council