A green fingered group of budding gardeners will give their support to the Stanwix in the Bloom campaign tomorrow (4 July).

 

Stanwix Primary School's Green Club, with help from Carlisle City Council, will be helping to plant up hanging baskets for display within their school grounds and also within St Michael's church grounds. Around 14 pupils aged between 7 to 10 years old will test out their horticultural skills between 9am and 12noon.

 

In addition to making hanging baskets, the pupils, with support from Carlisle City Council's Green Spaces team, will also be planting bedding plants within the church grounds throughout the morning.

 

Plants for the hanging baskets, including geraniums, petunias, verbena, lobelia, helichrysum, fuchsias and nemesia plants have been donated by Carlisle City Council and supplied by Westwood Nurseries in Dalston.

 

Carlisle was awarded a Silver award in the prestigious Britain In Bloom horticultural competition in 2004 and a Cumbria in Bloom Silver Gilt in 2005 and Silver in 2006.The city is entered in the Cumbria in Bloom Competition again this year. Bitts Park was also singled out in 2006 for a Green Flag award from the Civic Trust, the park is the running for another Green Flag award this year, the announcement will be made later this month.

 

There are lots of ways for local residents and businesses to support Carlisle in Bloom: take part in community gardening competitions, become a member of the Carlisle parks 'Friends of' groups or get involved in environmental work such as tree and bulb planting or community clear-up campaigns.