Whitby in Bloom - Residential Gardens

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Whitby in Bloom 2008
Residential Gardens

A Kept Garden Competition

A ‘Kept Garden Competition’ is hosted by Whitby in Bloom each year. The categories in this popular event reflect the many and varied types of garden in the town. There’s something for everyone, young and old, to show off and year on year the entry numbers increase as local gardeners blossom and grow in number.


A -Private Garden under 60m2	B -Private Garden over 60m2		C -Best Container Garden
D -Pub, Guest House or Hotel	E -Commercial or Business		F -	Small Community or Neighbourhood
G -School	H -Allotment		I -Hanging Basket
J - Whitby Yard	K -	Yorkshire Coast Homes Garden	L - Sunflowers
	Plus a Chairs Award and a Young persons Award

The awards include many trophies created by pupils at Whitby Community College and sponsored by people in the town. The unusual sculptures have been made from recycled materials such as reclaimed wood and copper water cylinders. The development of these forms part of the art and design studies curriculum.

Whitby has many hidden gems which nestle amongst or behind the old houses, shops and businesses. Visitors have walked within feet of these beautiful gems without knowing that they exist. This year however from April onwards Harry Collitt will add an Horticultural trail to his famous ‘town tours’ to enable tourists to have a taster of what lies beyond the cobbled streets.

To enable even more people to appreciate what goes on three exhibitions will be shown in The Library, The Tourist Information Centre and The Spa Complex through out the summer, featuring the entries from our 2007 Photographic Competition. Categories for children and also for adults will cover; Whitby Gardens, People at Work, Flowers, Landscape, and Wildlife.

Whitby Yards

Over eighty named yards still exist today in Whitby.

Many bear the names of former businesses housed there such as Bakehouse Yard. Often built on many levels amongst pan tiled cottages, accessed by wooden outdoor stairways, these enclosed yards have been carefully planted and tended by residents since Georgian & early Victorian times.

For those interested in learning more about our ‘Whitby Yards’ the reader is referred to;
* The A-Z of Whitby Yards compiled by Alan Whitworth, ISBN 1 871150 24 8.
* Whitby Yards by John Gaskin & Cordelia Stamp