Contemporary off a nationwide award final fall, Stratford’s Communities in Bloom committee is now accepting native nominations for this yr’s Greatest Blooming Backyard contest.
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Contemporary off a nationwide award final fall, Stratford’s Communities in Bloom committee is now accepting native nominations for this yr’s Greatest Blooming Backyard contest.
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“Particularly throughout the pandemic, gardens had been the spotlight of our summers,” committee member Barb Hacking mentioned Friday. “(The competition) is recognizing individuals who take the time to make our metropolis stunning, and there’s a lot of them.”
Should you assume somebody with a backyard worthy of recognition, nominations might be despatched to the committee by emailing adviscom@stratford.ca. Nominations ought to embody a photograph of the backyard with the proprietor’s permission, their contact particulars and some strains about why the backyard deserves to be acknowledged.
The committee is accepting nominations till Aug. 5. Afterwards, six winners will obtain prizes.
Related contests are being held by Communities in Bloom committees throughout the nation. The volunteer group’s nationwide judges will likely be in Stratford Aug. 16-18.
Final summer season, avid Stratford gardener Bernie van Herk was acknowledged on the Communities in Bloom Nationwide Awards and Group Showcase for his spectacular entrance yard backyard on Huron Avenue. The Stratford committee was additionally acknowledged on the occasion for his or her work all through the pandemic, which included repairs on the Ted Blowes Memorial Backyard in Confederation Park.
Van Herk, who was maintaining a tally of the general public backyard with different members of the committee Friday, hopes native gardens, together with his, are providing individuals a way of hope throughout the pandemic.
“That’s what we’re actually hoping for,” he mentioned. “That’s what we wish (after) what we went by means of the final two years.”
