Floral show blooms on for another year
SOUVENIR calendars celebrating Bosworth In Bloom’s national category-winning 2017 Britain in Bloom entry have been produced to raise money for next season’s floral displays.
Printed by The Graphic in Wheatsheaf Courtyard, they feature colour photographs by David Neave of some of the eye-catching displays which led Royal Horticultural Society judges to name Market Bosworth joint winner of the large village category in the 2017 national contest.
Other shots show a new Richard III memorial in the market place a wintry view of Market Bosworth Country Park.
Bloom group treasurer Brian Cox says the calendars not only celebrate the town’s floral success but reflect and represent its crucial community involvement, which was highly praised by judges.
It is the first time in the group’s 32 year history that calendars have been produced.
Mr Cox said: “The calendar is a response to the growing enthusiasm to be involved in the community and life of the village.
“Their purpose, although raising funds for next year’s floral displays, was to share with the community and celebrate winning the Britain In Bloom large village category in the East Midlands and national competitions.
On sale at the Mercury News shop and Michaelmas House in the town, they are available in either A4 or A3 sizes, costing £5 and £6 respectively. Nearly 300 had been sold at the time of writing. Mr Cox said: “I am pleased the calendars have sold so well.
“They will remind everyone how beautiful the floral displays in Market Bosworth were in the summer.”
Town schoolchildren, fire and police personnel, uniformed organisations, businesses and charitable societies were all involved in the 2017 Bloom effort, with plants grown and nutured by Bridge Farm Nursery in Sibson.
Among many who were praised by judges, the Rotary Club of Market Bosworth was given a special award for members’ work cleaning the town’s many street signs.
With a theme of Colours Of The Rainbow, money was raised for the Loughborough-based Rainbows Hospice for children and young people, which serves the whole of the East Midlands.
Bosworth in Bloom contributed towards the cost of a Rotary Club-led campaign which saw thosands of purple crocuses planted around the town by scores of schoolchildren, as part of an initiative to End Polio Now.
Bloom volunteers also helped Dixie Junior School pupils to plant 200 trees donated by the Woodland Trust.
In 2018, Bosworth in Bloom will be competing in a prestigious Champion of Champions competition, alongside the best of the best from this year’s campaign.