TATTERSHALL AND TATTERSHALL THORPE VILLAGE SITE

Best Kept Garden Competition

The Parish Council have organised a Best Kept Garden Competition since 1995, following a member of the parish offering the Chairman of the Council a trophy to be presented annually to the winning garden. A committee was formed and the Rose Bowl Trophy began its journey.

In 2002 it was decided that another category would be added to the competition to make it equal to all in the parish, being able to include the smaller gardens on the RAF estates at Clinton Park and Castlefields. The two categories were then ‘Standard Garden’ and ‘Container Garden’. In June and July members of the Council look at front gardens throughout both Tattershall and Tattershall Thorpe creating a shortlist of approximately 10 – 15 gardens and a judge is appointed to make the final decision, nominating 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd places in each category.

In 2006 Tattershall Thorpe started it's own Best Kept Garden Competition which was won by Anne and Maurice Hanson

In 2004, the Council contacted local businesses to find sponsorship for the competition and were delighted when Barracks Newsagents donated a beautiful trophy, ‘The Barrack Trophy’ which is awarded to the winner of the Container garden category.

Presentation of the trophies usually takes place following the September Parish Council meeting in the winning garden of the ‘Standard’ category. Certificates are presented to the runners up in each category in recognition of their efforts.

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