Theme for South West in Bloom

Each year a theme for the South West in Bloom competition is showcased in the Hoe Front garden. The theme for 2012 is loveLIFE.

loveLIFE

This is an exciting city wide health and wellbeing campaign and has been chosen as the theme for this year's South West in Bloom competition.

The Hoe front garden will be planted with an array of pink and white flowers, including fuchias, cosmos, geraniums and chlorophytum comosum (spider plants), and will feature the campaign logos, images and interpretation boards.

For many years gardening has been recognised as a way of keeping fit, healthy and active. Why not join the loveLIFE campaign to lose weight and get fit in your own garden, community garden or allotment this year and at the same time enter this years Plymouth in Bloom competition.

Previous themes

• 2011 - 90th anniversary of the Royal British Legion formation. Members of the Royal British Legion and various schools worked with Parks Services on a variety of horticultural schemes across the city. The Hoe Front garden was be a blaze of red this year, with a large floral poppy as the main feature linking in with the Royal British Legion poppy appeal.
• 2010 - 100th anniversary of the Girl Guides. This year a large three dimensional carpet bedding football featured in the garden, which connected the Guides 'Go for it' football teams and Plymouth's bid to host one of the World Cup's football matches in 2018.
• 2009 - 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth. A totem pole carved from recycled red cedar and a giant tortoise carved from solid oak. Both were carved by Lee Dickenson of Squashed Apple and were displayed in the Hoe front garden and now stand on Saltash Road.
• 2008 - John West (one of Plymouth City Council's blacksmiths) created a large dragonfly sculpture at our depot in Prince Rock, which appeared on the Hoe in the front garden. In 2009 it was be relocated to the pond outside the Civic Centre.
• 2007 - John West created a magnificent dove sculpture to celebrate the Scouts centenary. This now stands at Milehouse junction.
• 2006 - Lee Dickenson from Squashed Apple carved Brunel to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Brunel's birth. This carving now stands on Pennycomequick roundabout.

If you would like to get involved with Plymouth or South West in Bloom please contact us on 01752 606034.