Carlisle steam ahead with floral display

Carlisle City Council's award-winning Green Spaces team is steaming ahead with a colourful new floral display, due to be displayed as part of a national flower show next week.

Work is currently underway on the 1.5 metre high locomotive floral design crafted from 4,000 bedding plants, including Petunas, Helichrysum and Begonias.

The plants, donated free of charge to the City Council by the Royal Horticultural Society, have been delivered to Westwood Nurseries who have helped nurture the plants for their use in the completed design.

The spectacular display will come together as part of Carlisle City Council's first ever entry into the RHS/Ball Colegrave National Flower Bed Competition, part of the RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park, Cheshire.

A team of four Council gardeners is currently constructing the display, partly at the nursery, but finishes touches will made at the flower show. The team of gardeners and their display will travel down this weekend. Judging will take place next Tuesday (17 July).

Carlisle City Council Cllr Ray Bloxham, Portfolio holder for Environment & Infrastructure said:

This is the first time we've entered a competition of this type but we hope that our floral design will be well received by the judges. Our bedding display will celebrate Carlisle's Citadel station's 160th anniversary and after the flower festival will go on display in one our parks for local people and visitors to enjoy too.

The Carlisle City Council entry is one of 19 entries in the same category.

The RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park will be held between Wednesday, 18 and Sunday, 22 July. This is the ninth year the event has been staged.

Further information on the event and to see a copy of the Carlisle City Council design visit http://www.rhs.org.uk/

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