Author: DGP

TOWN AWARDS 2016 Dartmouth Green Partnerships has judged Dartmouth’s  floral displays for 2016. The winners are listed below. Awards are made for marks out of 10 for each of the following categories: Sustainability and appropriate choice of plants, wildlife friendly, innovation, condition, and overall impression. DGP Chairman, Stevie Rogers, said: ‘The results were very close […]

South West In Bloom Awards 2016 Dartmouth won a Gold Medal and the Ayre cup, (awarded to towns with a population under 6,000) in the South West in Bloom Awards. A team of members of Dartmouth Green Partnerships attended the awards event at Taunton County Cricket Ground.   They are pictured below with the cup and […]

Gardeners’ Question Time attracted a large and lively audience of green-fingered enthusiasts to the Guildhall, Dartmouth (see photo), on Monday 2 March when two programmes for the popular BBC Radio 4 series were recorded. The first was broadcast on Friday 13 March, the second on Friday 1 May at 3pm, repeated on Sunday 3 May […]

RHS Tatton Park Flower Show – Dartmouth wins Bronze The floral replica of HMS Britannia won a Bronze flora award at the prestigious event. The display featuring 5,000 tiny plants was originally devised for the 2013 celebrations of the 150th anniversary of HMS Britannia, the vessel on which naval officers trained in the River Dart […]

Gold Award and the Ayre Cup for best in category…ie small Coastal town with population under 10,000 in the SW.  (Scilly Isles to Gloucester) 2014  Poppy Award (for the best commemorative poppy bed)  –  Silver Gilt Award for the  Sea Cadets Memorial bed and the RAG poppy bed combined. Royal Avenue Gardens won a Gold […]

South West In Bloom Awards 2016 Dartmouth won a Gold Medal and the Ayre cup, (awarded to towns with a population under 6,000) in the South West in Bloom Awards. A team of members of Dartmouth Green Partnerships attended the awards event at Taunton County Cricket Ground.   They are pictured below with the cup and […]