Help ensure that beautiful Usk continues to be the ‘Town of Flowers’.
Contact – Jan Mundy at 07944 616448 or at secretary@uskinbloom.org.uk
2024
Flower colours for 2024 – UIB 2024 planting theme
Twyn Square Usk, July 2024
Flower beds Aug 2024
The Scouts have planted up an old canoe and flowers in the churchyard.
Usk “Girl Guide Garden” benches and bike.
Twyn Square, June 2024
May – planting tubs and perennials growing in tubs.
Spring flowers in Usk
January – Clearing a garden and first snowdrops.
2023
Usk in Bloom has won a GOLD award again in 2023 from Wales in Bloom.
And Usk in Bloom wins WALES IN BLOOM for their class for 2023.
Summer in Usk
Daffs in a tub and planting containers.
2022
Usk in Bloom has won a GOLD award from Wales in Bloom 2022 again !
We are also joint winners in our class of Wales in Bloom for 2022.
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.
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
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
Usk – July 2019
Wales in Bloom Judging – July 2019 Judging Collage
Usk in July
Judging the Wales in Bloom competition.
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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