Yorkshire in Bloom judging day 1st July

We’ve been tidying up all around Otley, our members have been litter-picking in Ilkley Road, Westgate, over the bridge to Billams Hill, around the Maypole and Manchester square, in fact all over town. We’ve tidied up the gateways at Leeds Road, Pool Road, we’ve refurbished the displays in the Memorial Gardens, on Kirkgate, and the bed by the Chippendale Statue, and we’ve got a great window display in Skipton Building Society (just to the right of the new cycling sculpture there).

Yorkshire in Bloom summer judging

The group hosted the YIB summer judging today with a tour round the town’s floral highlights. They were joined by the Town Mayor Councillor Pam Gill, and also Councillor Kevin Cooney, and the tour included visits to the new Nectar Bed and the wildflower meadow at the Whartons school. Everyone enjoyed the tour on a very sunny morning and it finished with lunch laid on by the group with help from Waitrose.