Help ensure that beautiful Usk continues to be the ‘Town of Flowers’.
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5000 daffodil bulbs have been planted outside the school with help from a grant from the Co-op. Next spring we will see a fantastic perennial Welsh Tenby daffodils display.
Wales in Bloom 2021 has given us a Gold Award even though the pandemic has limited our activities this year.
Twyn Square still looking good in mid Sept 2021
Late July 2021
Judging for the Wales in Bloom competition.
Planting in June.
New Usk in Bloom sign and tulips.
Daffodils in Twyn Square and preparing a 100 metre wild flower bed.
All the daffs in town ! Early March 2021
New date announced for the Pendyrus Male Choir concert – Pendyrus Male Choir
Early Daffodils in Usk.
Leaf clearing and bulb planting.
The Royal Horticultural Society Britain in Bloom competition was cancelled in 2020 but Usk in Bloom has received a certificate to mark their participation :-
RHS-Recognition – Usk in Bloom
The Usk Town Garden Competition – 2020 Town Results – Gold Standard
Twyn Square Aug 2020. Flowers from the Willows Garden Centre www.willowsgardencentre.co.uk
Twyn Square, Early June
Boxes ready for Twyn Square. Grown at The Willows Garden Centre. https://www.willowsgardencentre.co.uk/
Twyn Square in April. Photos by Sarah Powell.
The Usk School “Garden Gang” with the Britain in Bloom banner.
Febuary 2020.
January 2020 – clearing flower beds.
Twyn Square – start of the Winter flowers.
2019 Winter Planting in Twyn Square
2019 Wales In Bloom certificate Award
2019 Town Competition Winners
Usk has won its class in Wales in Bloom 2019 and achieved a gold standard.
Results of the 2019 Usk in Bloom Town competition.
Results of the 2019 Usk in Bloom COMMERCIAL competition
2019 Town Commercial Category Winners
Twyn Square, early Aug 2019
Usk – July 2019
Information about the annual Usk town gardens competition: 2019 Town Competition
Wales in Bloom Judging – July 2019 Judging Collage
Usk in July
Judging the Wales in Bloom competition.
On 27th June Usk in Bloom hosted Harewood End Infant School from Gloucester – 90 children and 13 teachers on a guided tour of Usk. See the details … Harewood School Visit
June – Usk is beginning to bloom!
Planting Twyn Square
Spring in Usk 2019
Usk in Bloom have won the Communities in Bloom (World) Small International Category 2018. At the awards ceremony in Edmonton, Alberta on Saturday Usk in Bloom representatives Tony Kear and Jan Mundy admitted to being “stunned and speechless” as it was announced that Usk had won the top award in the International Challenge overcoming similar sized communities in the USA, Canada and Europe to lift the trophy.
Competition judging.
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