Great to see how the business organisation Bath BID has teamed up with the plantsmen at the Parks Department to produce some amazing floral displays around the city. This year too the Southgate Shopping Centre […]
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Oh Peroni!
First – the good news. The Council’s Parks Department and Bath BID have come together to help brighten up our streets this summer – for locals and tourists alike. Caught a couple of floral displays […]
Petals on parade
City retailers are joining Bath BID in funding more than two hundred hanging baskets which will now be put up across the city – using water-saving containers. They’ve been created using plants grown in greenhouses […]
A bit of a change at the nursery
Bearing how well Bath and flowers have always gone together – and how hard the Parks Department team work to make our award-winning public beds bloom – l was a little worried to see a […]
On parade for the judges.
It was all hands to the flower beds this morning (Monday, July 16th) in Bath’s Parade Gardens where Parks Department staff are putting the final touches to this year’s floral display before the judges arrive […]
This summer’s ‘selfie’ spot.
Whatever you think of Bath’s annual Christmas Market the one thing l always look forward to is the Abbey Hotel’s ‘Snow Globe’ installation – the location of one of the best festival selfies you can […]
Spring is in the fayre.
Out early enough to join the queue waiting to experience the opening of the Spring Fayre B&NES has organised this weekend in Parade Gardens – one of the city’s floral showpieces alongside Pulteney Weir. Must […]
Floral cut-backs
Reacting to the Bath Newseum story about flower beds in Parade Garden being grassed over to save money on maintenance, Barry Cruse writes to tell me: “I gather there will only be one carousel in […]
Still – on parade!
Bath’s awarding-winning floral showcase park beside the River Avon will be showing the effects of local authority austerity this summer. Parade Gardens now longer has a resident gardener and a couple of flower beds are […]
Grow petals – win prizes!
It’s not only Bath’s big formal public parks that can win awards for flower and shrub displays – there’s a chance now for green-fingered owners of everything from an allotment, a suburban garden or even a […]
