Spring Tidy.

A few of the group met to tidy up the Lowtown Garden, grasses needed cutting back, a bit of weeding to be done and finally we mulched the beds with chipped bark.

Please vote for us!

Next time you visit Asda, please take a moment to vote for our `Olympic Project`. Asda have £200 to give away to the local community project winning most votes. I am sure all the projects featured on their community board are very deserving, but we would like to win!!
We would like to use the money to commemorate the year of the Olympics by creating a small Olympic garden, so come on....show your support and drop your tokens into the Pudsey In Bloom box!

Leeds In Bloom Garden Awards.

Two of our members attended the Leeds In Bloom private garden awards ceremony where they were both presented with a gold medal.

It`s another SILVER!

Some of our members attended the Yorkshire In Bloom Award ceremony today at the Pavillions in Harrogate. We are pleased to announce that we have held onto our SILVER award, and have a fourth certificate to add to our growing collection. We were in fact awarded Silver Gilt for the summer judging round, but a silver for spring , this gave us an overall Silver.

Let`s all congratulate ourselves that once more all the hard work has paid off!

Official Unveiling

On Tuesday 1st September the Civic Society arranged a short ceremony to officially unveil the plaque commemorating the history of the tripe baths. There was quite a gathering of people at the garden, and the plaque was unveiled by the daughter and granddaughter of Mr Job Ross. Afterwards we celebrated with a drink and nibbles at the Crossed Shuttle!

A close up of the plaque for you to read.

Tripe Baths have their history unveiled

Thanks to the Civic Society, our now famous tripe baths, re-homed in the Lowtown garden now have a heritage plaque in place to explain their history. We are hoping to have an official `unveiling` in the near future!

The garden is looking especially good at the moment with a lovely colourful border of blue lavender, pink geranium and orange calendulas. And at long last we now have a rubbish bin in place, after first requesting this from the council almost 2 years ago! Its not in the ideal place as we wanted it next to the seats, but due to lack of space one has been positioned just outside the garden on the pavement, please be sure to use it if you visit the garden to eat your sandwich!