Floral St Peter Port

2010 Parish Competition

floral — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:48:12 +0000

The details of the 2010 Parish Competition, and the entry form, are now available on the Competition page. There are new categories this year.

Good luck if you decide to enter!

IMG ~ Private garden winner, 2009, Mr and Mrs Rumens.

2010 Parish Competiton

floral — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:20:20 +0000

It’s time to start getting your garden ready for the 2010 Floral St Peter Port Parish Competition!

The deadline for entries is the 5th July. Judging will take place between the 12th and 14th July.

The categories are:

Pubs
Hotels
Cafes and Restaurants
Banks
Shops
Commercial offices
Public Building
Private Gardens (Road frontage only, any size)

Download and print your entry form here, or pick one up from the Constables Office.

2010 Competition Entry Form

Gardening Tips and Freebies!

floral — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:51:38 +0000

Spring is here, it’s the perfect time to get out into the garden (to get it ready for our competition?) in the sunshine. But, we know it can be a bit hard to know where to start – and expensive!

So, we’ve put together a short list of links to advice and even some free seeds to get you going.

If you know of any more offers available, or have a favourite “tips” site, please link to it in the comments. All the links were working at the time of posting – but if you spot a broken, or expired link, do tell us.

The BBC have a free seeds offer.
The RHS have lots of suggestions, advice, and sometimes freebies.
Found something you don’t recognise? Try “What on Earth?“. (And get free seeds!)
Garden Freebies does what it says on the tin!
Homebase have a gardening club with loads of advice, video guides, and competitions.
They also have a free planner to download.
B&Q currently have a free planner available to pick up, and several offers on seeds.

Finally, the Floral St Peter Port Committee have a lot of knowledge, and can also provide practical help. Please get in touch if you feel we might be able to help you (St Peter Port only!)

Img ~ Gardening tools clip art.

North Plantation

floral — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:31:40 +0000

The committee are keeping a weather eye on the situation on the North Plantation, and will of course be doing all we can to prevent the total paving over of one of Town’s beautiful green spaces.

If you’d like to view the plans, or write to the Environment Department to object, the reference is: FULL/2009/1754 (A411190005-P130P). The application was published in the press on the 24.07.09, but is also displayed on site.

In better news, the rabbit is back on the plantation!

IMG ~ The new flowers on the plantation, planted by parish school children.

2009 Results

floral — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:03:00 +0000

Phew! What a fortnight: we were judged for Floral Guernsey, went to the awards night for Floral Guernsey, judged our own Parish Competition, and had the awards night for that! Now we can put our feet up and enjoy our lovely parish for a while.

Thank you so much to everyone who has helped us this year (see the sponsors page). Thanks to your hard work, we maintained standards – we got Silver Gilt again!

Congratulations to all who entered our competition, the judges found it very hard to choose the winners. The full results are here.

Img ~ Celebratory cakes, served at the buffet on our Parish Competition awards night.

Judging Day!

floral — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:08:57 +0000

Well, the big day is upon us once again. Today is our judging day in the Parish Competition, and we are very excited to show off our parish to the judges. If you see us out, give us a smile and a wave. If you see any litter – bin it!

As part of the judging route, we have a display in the tourist information centre, showing a little bit of all we have done this year – feel free to drop in and have a look, it will be up all day today and until around four pm tomorrow. Also on display is work by local school children in the Bedell Group Little Green Fingers Schools’ Project.

Best of luck to all the other parishes who are competing: we know you have worked hard too!

Image ~ Crossed fingers

2009 Parish Competition

floral — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:33:52 +0000

The details of the 2009 Parish Competition are now available. See the competition page for more information and an entry form.

2009 Parish Competition Results

floral — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:48:23 +0000

The winning garden in the private gardens category.

The winners of the 2009 Floral St Peter Port Parish Competition are: Mr and Mrs Rumens in the private gardens category, Harbour Lights in the hospitality category, and International Law Systems in the commercial category. Trinity Square received a special Judge’s award for their community effort. All the entrants did brilliantly, and the judges reported struggling to choose the winners! Well done to everyone who took part.

The judging was by 3 independent local judges, and took place between the 13th and 16th July 2009.

Full Results 2009

Private Gardens
Bronze:	Mrs Gallienne
Silver:	Tina Ford
	Madame Moyen
	Jayne Vaudin
Silver Gilt:	Mr L. Domaille
	Mrs D. Holland
	Linda Jones
	Judie Prevel
Gold:	Gary and Melita Guilmoto
	Mr and Mrs L. Rumens

Hospitality Premises
Silver:	Cornerstone Café Bar
	Duke of Richmond Hotel
	St George’s B&B
	The White Hart
Silver Gilt:	Forester’s Arms
	Hotel de Havelet
	Rocquettes Hotel
Gold:	Harbour Lights
	Moore’s Hotel

Commercial Premises
Silver:	Information Centre
Silver Gilt:	Elements Beauty Salon
	Rothschild Bank International
	St Peter Port Garage
Gold:	Credit Suisse
	FirstRand Trustees Ltd
	International Law Systems
	Snips hairdresser
	Swoffers

2008 Parish Competition Results

floral — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:02:39 +0000

In 2008, an overall first prize was awarded in each category at an informal prize giving ceremony, followed by a buffet. The Commercial Premises category was won by the Tourist Information centre, who received a trophy. The Harbour Lights / White D’Or won the Hospitality premises trophy, and Gary Guilmoto received £100 of gift vouchers for winning the private gardens category. A special judges award for community involvement was presented to the residents of Maison Collivet. All the entrants were presented with a certificate; congratulations to everyone!

Judging was by three independent (local) judges and took place between 30 June – 5 July.

It’s never too early to start working for 2009…. details will be here as soon as they are available!

Full Results 2008
Commercial premises (shops, offices, banks, garages etc)

Bronze: Victoria
Silver Gilt: Swoffers Ltd,

N.M. Rothschild,
RMBI (CI)
Fillers Sandwich Bar

Gold: Information Centre

Hospitality premises (hotels, pubs, restaurants)

Silver: Cornerstone Café Bar

Rocquettes Hotel
Duke of Richmond Hotel
Grange Lodge Hotel

Silver Gilt: Thomas de la Rue

The White Hart
Foresters Arms
St Georges B&B

Gold: Moores Hotel

Harbour Lights / White D’Or

Private Gardens

Bronze: Notre Menage: Tina Ford
Silver: 10 Millbrook: Linda Jones

31 Millbrook: Mark Helpe
Bon Sens: Nick Bougourd

Silver Gilt: 3 Maison Collivet: Mrs D Holland
Gold: 1 Valnord: Mr & Mrs L Rumens

Secret Garden: Gary Guilmoto

North Plantation

floral — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:48:27 +0000

If you were out and about in Town today, you may have spotted work going on, on the North Plantation. Jenny Tasker, Senior Constable of St Peter Port, was there to kick things off, and got her hands dirty too – although she had to enlist the help of the press photographer!

Thanks to co-operation between Floral St Peter Port, the Constables, States Works, the Environment Department, Floral Guernsey, and HSBC, the permissions, plans, and pennies are finally in place to give the plantation a much needed makeover. The dead plants are being removed, and by the summer we will have a tranquil, light, green space, with seating and pathways.

Video ~ Tree sawing by a constable and a press photographer.