Norwich in Bloom Diary for 2019

Norwich in Bloom Diary 2019

Trustees Meeting Thursday 17th January 2019.
Trustees Meeting Thursday 21st February 2019.

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Keith and Julie visited the City College and saw the students at work. Also the Community inniative was giving out seeds to groups to grow and bring half back when they had grown them.

Annual General Meeting 2019.
We will be holding our Annual General Meeting on Thursday 28th February at Notcutts. We will be hosted by Notcutts our sponsor for our competitions. AGM starts at 2pm. Only paid up members will be able to vote on the day.

Seed Project
On 6th February the Seed Project had their seeds day that were available to take packets of seeds and grow them. and also the Seed swap at Silver Road Community Centre on 17th February 2019.

Waterloo Park
One of the new groups in Norwich are The Friends of Waterloo Park who have been very successful in making Waterloo Park filled with Community spirit and putting new bedding plants into the many fantastic borders.

Launch 10th March 2019
We held our Competition launch on 10th March 2019. We had lots of Children come in and made dragons.

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Assistant Teachers Training Sponsored by Notcutts.
Nick Bugden the Assistant Manager of Notcutts, has given the Teaching Assistants from our schools in Norwich a training on how to get the best out of the different categories in our School Competition. Around 18 teachers came and were offered three free bags of compost and advice from Nick.

Daffodil Competition 21st March at Notcutts.

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1st Place went to Norwich Steiner School.

2nd Place went to Chapelbreak Infant School.

3rd Place went to St Francis of Assisi.

After the Daffodil Competition was over we Collected all of the Daffodils together and they were taken to Caroline House. Heres Waltraud Jarrold our president and one of the ladies who works at Caroline House.

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March 26th Anglia in Bloom Seminar at Notcutts.

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Nature Festival 14th April 2019
The Inbloom helped out at the Festival of Nature day. Lots of children planted seeds.

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Wednesday 22nd May - Planting outside the Maids Head Hotel.

The Maids Head have agreed to give us a free buffet for our Britain in Bloom judges on 2nd August for exchange for hanging baskets and troughs renewed with plants. Heres our team at work. Plants brought to the hotel by sponsors Notcutts and grown by City College students.

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7th June 2019

Well done Keith for delivering the hanging baskets to the Trafford Pub etc, well done to Ian from Hockering for making such wonderful baskets for us and many thanks to Nick from the Trafford for supporting the Friends of Norwich in Bloom.

One Planet 7th June 2019

Lots of the team were at the One Planet for the day on 7th June. Lots of seeds were planted with homemade newspaper pots.

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Friday 5th July 2019- Anglia in Bloom route.

We started the route at the Great Hospital, we did a short presentation to the judges first. Then Niki and Crew escorted the judges around the gardens.

*Visit The Great Hospital

*Cathedral Herb Garden

*All Saints Green

*Edith Cavell Academy

*Plantation Garden

* Grapes Hill Community Garden

* The Adam and Eve

Lunch at the Adam and Eve.