Bury In Bloom Keeps Bury Blooming Lovely

Bury in Bloom's volunteers work hard to keep Bury St Edmunds looking blooming lovely all year round and the many floral and unique roundabout sculptures you see in the town are projects that have been carried out by Bury in Bloom.

Then there are the wonderful hundreds of hanging baskets and planters throughout the town centre provided which flood Bury St Edmunds with colour each year.

It's a huge team effort keeping the town looking blooming lovely for the community and visitors alike lead by the Bury Society’s Bury in Bloom volunteer team, West Suffolk Council park staff, the Friends of Abbey Gardens and many more. Their main sponsors are Greene King, West Suffolk council and Our Bury St Edmunds BID.

There are 450 hanging baskets up and 50 planters on display in Bury St Edmunds town centre every year providing a brilliant colourful welcome for visitors and residents alike.

The baskets, supplied by Woolpit Nurseries, are put up by the team at West Suffolk Council.

They provide projects for all ages and for all areas of the borough to ensure that the needs and aspirations of the community can be met, bringing people together to enhance, be inspired and enjoy what Bury St Edmunds has to offer its residents and visitors.

Throughout the town, residents put up their own floral displays each year and Bury In Bloom’s team of 100 volunteer judges inspect all areas of the town in July to award Certificates of Merit. Every year in July judges from Bury in Bloom go out around Bury's streets to judge Bury's Front Gardens with winners given an award.

Every year Bury in Bloom, which was founded in 1986, enters Anglia in Bloom. Nominations for the Royal Horticultural Society's Britain in Bloom (Britain's nationwide gardening competition) are selected from Anglia in Bloom's category winners who, in the opinion of the Anglia in Bloom Trustees, are able to sustain their award-winning standard into the following year, when the Britain in Bloom judging takes place. Each category winner for Britain in Bloom is then put forward to be considered for the title of the overall RHS Britain in Bloom Champion. The results and winners are then announced in the autumn.

Bury in Bloom’s awards and plaudits since the 80s are too many to list, with numerous Gold Awards from the RHS Britain in Bloom and Anglia in Bloom!

Find out more about the work of Bury in Bloom on their website at www.buryinbloom.org.uk