Otley in Bloom

New bench at Craven Street

Last autumn we cleared a small patch of land beside Craven Street, planted daffodils and sowed grass, and now we’ve added a lovely new bench for the benefit of local residents and passers-by.

The last bicycle from our Tour de France display has had a facelift, and is now in its permanent home by the library. It is our noticeboard, so if you ever want to know what we are up to or our next activity you can join in with, just check out the bicycle!!!

Drawing competition winners

Here are the winning entries in the children’s drawing competition held in March.

This lovely daffodil by Freya Foley from Westgate Primary School won the prize for age 4.

This excellent drawing showing the names of parts of the flower by Annie Chambers of The Whartons won the prize for age 5.

This beautiful Rose drawn by Martha Dix of The Whartons won the prize for age 6.

Well done to all our winners, and well done to all the other artists who took part, we loved seeing your pictures and we hope you enjoyed drawing them. thank you everybody for taking part.

Yorkshire in Bloom judging day 8th April

The spring judging for the Yorkshire in Bloom competition is on 8th April. We have been busy planting, tidying and weeding, trying to make Otley look as lovely as we can ready for the judges. This picture shows the little garden at Bremner Street opposite Asda, after we’d pruned and litter-picked (a whole bin-liner-full of litter this time!), and planted some new flowering plants.

We will be out on 7th April in the evening picking up litter, trying to show the judges Otley at its best. if you’d like to help us, we’re meeting at the Buttercross at 7pm. (This will be instead of our normal monthly meeting.) If you have floral displays outside your house or business, it would be lovely if you could make sure they’re looking their best too.

Buttercross stall

It was good to meet so many of you at our stall at the Buttercross. We ran out of cake and sold lots of plants, but more importantly we got the chance to talk to you about what we do and show you our displays. Thank you everyone who helped to run the stall, and everyone who came to see us.