Garden Competition 2019

Woburn Sands Garden Competition 2019 was sponsored by Frosts Garden Centre.

Nominations were requested for front and back gardens, hanging baskets and pots. The results are below.

Front Gardens

FIRST 27 Hardwick Road
This garden is a joy to visit, made up of lush green lawns, lots of small well-manicured beds containing lots of small box balls all neatly trimmed, lots of colourful bedding plants such as French marigolds, petunias, begonias and colourful pansy. Round the back of the bungalow is a secluded terrace with more colourful containers.
A worthy winner

First Front Garden

SECOND 75 Elm Grove
A well-manicured lawn, surrounded by a border of lovely flowering Begonia Semperflorens, behind are well shaped and neatly trimmed shrubs, mixed in are colourful roses all in flower together with Salvia Hot Lips when the judges visited this garden, a worthy winner.

Second Front Garden

THIRD 2 Russell Street
A charming and delightful small front garden for all to see who walk past in Russell Street, a gravel garden with very colourful containers and wall baskets recycling the tops of old metal drain pipes, making use of old railway signage, when judges visited hydrangeas were in full flower and deep agapanthus were in full flower. Truly a beautiful garden and a worthy winner.

3rd Front Garden

Back Gardens

FIRST 5 Badgers Holt
A colourful garden surrounds a square lawn of colourful borders, containing flowering bedding plants flowering herbaceous plants, secluded harbour seat, surrounded by a mixture of ferns, hosta’s and herbs, by the shed were display of lilies in full flower on the day of judging, one side of the garden dominated by matured espalier fruit trees. Beautiful well maintained window boxes and troughs of colourful bedding plants, geranium and pelargoniums

1st Back Garden

SECOND 8 Ridgeway
A well maintained garden with a large central lawn, surrounded by established weed free borders, a large thatched summer house dominates the garden, with a mixed beautiful flowering border of herbaceous plants nearby, 4 lovely hanging baskets and containers. A beautiful oasis of calm and tranquillity.

2nd Back Garden

THIRD Theydon Lodge
A very colourful side border visible from the road planted with full mature shrubs and herbaceous plants all in full flower lead to a secluded large back garden lawn, surrounded by colourful shrubs, herbaceous borders in full flower, fruit trees, a greenhouse, 3 water butts to conserve water and much more all entered by a seclude gate covered with Parthenocissus Quinquefolia

3rd Back Garden

Baskets

FIRST 2 Club Lane
A beautiful display once again this year, hanging baskets on the wall with large flowering maroon geraniums at the top of the wall baskets with a middle layer of light pink ivy leaf geraniums and a lower skirt of deep maroon flowering petunias. In front are beautiful containers with petunias and geraniums, all in excellent condition.

First Hanging Basket

SECOND 125 Greensand View
There is a spectacular display of 8 perfectly shaped and well maintained baskets on the corner of Greensand View all containing a mixture of colourful basket plants, grown and produced by the retired resident of the apartment, the judges felt the baskets not only brightened up the corner property of the street but for all to enjoy who walked past.

2nd Hanging Basket

THIRD 36 Greensand View

A very beautiful rounded basket of pink and white double petunias in excellent condition, a perfect ball of colour.

3rd Hanging Basket

Special and Community Awards

BURLINGTON HALL
Beautiful hanging baskets and window boxes full of flowering begonias, fuchsia, geraniums, petunia and a host of other flowering plants which are spectacular together with the well-manicured gardens and a credit to the gardener who looks after it all.

FRIENDS OF WOBURNSANDS STATION

A small group of residents have got together to brighten up the station platforms with a number of planted barrels and planted wall mangers containing colourful mixture of summer flowering bedding plants making beautiful displays of colour as passengers wait for trains or arrive at the station. The volunteers care and water these plants daily. A wall mural fixed to the railings was painted by the Genesis Youth Group from St Michaels Church depicting life in Woburn Sands, a credit to the artists, plus the historical boards by Paul Cox, make the Station and its near –by businesses worth visiting.

All the volunteers are worthy winners.

See pictures below….

FRIENDS OF WOBURNSANDS STATION

WS Station Community Award