YEOVIL NEWS: Blooming marvellous! Great bulb giveway at St John’s Churchyard

THE annual bulb giveaway from Yeovil’s award-winning floral display is upon us again - giving residents of South Somerset the opportunity to claim a free bag of bulbs that were used during last year’s bedding displays.

South Somerset District Council, who creates and maintains the floral displays on behalf of Yeovil Town Council, is inviting people to the bulb giveaway at St Johns Churchyard in Yeovil on Wednesday (June 1, 2016) from 10am.

At the same time, the Yeovil in Bloom team will be installing street art from the Words on the Street Project in King George Street.

Poems have been sent in by members of the public, printed onto biodegradable paper and will be wrapped around the London Plane Trees along the street.

Chairman of the steering group, Cllr David Recardo, said: “Recycling old bulbs forms a key part of the Yeovil in Bloom strategy and helps ensure that more and more floral displays are planted throughout the Town making Yeovil an even more beautiful place in which to live, work and visit.”

The bulb giveaway and the Words on the Street Project help towards the entry into the Royal Horticultural Society South West in Bloom Competition. The judging for this event in Yeovil will take place on Tuesday, July 12, 2016.

Yeovil won Gold in last year's South West in Bloom competition for the seventh time. Yeovil in Bloom also received two “outstanding” It's Your Neighbourhood awards for Kenmore Drive Residents Association and King Arthur Drive Residents.

Four “thriving” It's Your Neighbourhood awards were also received for Brympton Allotments Association, The Foyer, Huish Primary School and West Abbey Residential Home.

The Yeovil in Bloom initiative is managed and funded by Yeovil Town Council, and delivered with the support of South Somerset District Council.

For more information about the bulb giveaway or Words on the Street Project, call Lesley Jelleyman on 01935-462837.

PHOTOS: Taken during last year's bulb giveaway in Yeovil town centre.

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