Bath in Bloom Awards!

Bath in Bloom June 2009

The University has won another award in the annual Bath in Bloom competition; the award this year is a Gold Award in the Community Groups category. The four areas that were judged were the Arrivals Square and herbaceous border, lakeside plantings, the new Woodland Court student residences and the Japanese Garden Courtyard,.

This is the seventh time the University's Landscape Section have won awards, the previous occasions being 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 and last year, 2008.

The Landscape Team enjoyed a celebratory lunch in the Wessex Restaurant attended by the Mayor of Bath, Councillor Colin Barrett, together with Lorraine Morgan-Brinkhurst, formerly both Mayor of Bath and Leader of B&NES Council. The Mayor officially presented the University with the award, a beautiful, cut glass rose bowl. It was especially fitting that Lorraine Morgan-Brinkhurst was able to attend the presentation as the rose bowl was bought by her some years previously to use in the Bath in Bloom competition.

Below are some pictures of the campus landscape taken in the weeks leading up to the competition judging.

The plants used in the Arrivals Square border included:

The outer edge of this border contained a mixed variety of Pyracantha to form a low informal hedge.

The border surrounding the turning circle area contained the following plants:

Lakeside planting used a mixture of trees and shurbs as follows:

Woodland Court, the student residences, have had the following trees and shurbs planted

The Japanese Courtyard is made up of plants that originate from Japan, including:

There are also some special features in the planting surrounding Woodland Court which include a granite waterfall, plum slate and white cobbles.

Contact David Hunt , Landscape Manager on 5872.