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15th
Radley Gardens Competition, 02 July 2011
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Parish Council's 15th annual Garden Competition was
held on Saturday, 2nd July. The Council is most grateful
to the 12 judges, who up freely gave their time and came
from Abingdon, Harwell and Kennington. Most had judged
for us before. Also to the guides who shepherded the judges
round the village. The Council is to the following for
sponsorship: Tarmac, Abingdon
Garden Plants of Lodge Hill, Berinsfield Community Services,
Ringrose Tree Services and Radley Village
Shop. additional thanks go to Jenny Standen and
Marion Natham for providing an excellent lunch and afternoon
tea for the judges and guides. |
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Let's
keep Radley beautiful.
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| The judging criteria remained
as they were last year. There were about the same number
of awards this year compared with last
year, with more highly commendeds in the Best Garden
category. |
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PDF Slideshows and Photo Galleries
Highly
Commended Gardens (4.2MB)
Winning
Gardens (1.3MB) |
(Requires Adobe Reader)
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RESULTS |
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AWARDS: BEST GARDENS |
Attia
Trophy: Dian & Michael Slay,
51 Foxborough Road. |
Runner
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Nigel & Julie Pugh, 58 Bigwood. |
Highly
Commended:
57 Selwyn Crescent - Les & Nicky Jones , 19 Sugworth
Crescent - Geoffrey & Doreen Wormwell, 34 Sugworth
Lane – Jack & Shirley Griffin, 36 Pebble Hill -
Margaret & Alan Smith, Woodside, Woodlands – Dorothy
& John Payne, 16 Church Road - Dick & Sue Crabb,
1, St James Road – Bob & Pat Earl, 12A Lower Radley
Caravan Park – Keith & Jennifer Bentley, 3 Stonhouse
Crescent – Carol Milward, 5 Spinneys Close - Olga &
Anthony Critchley , 57 Foxborough Road - Maureen &
Derek Cook. |
Commended:
40 St James Road - John & Ruth Walton,
8 Little Howe Close - David & Julie Cusden, 17 Selwyn
Crescent - Patricia & James Murden, 27 Selwyn Crescent
- Yvonne Milward, 27 Ferny Close - Ian & Jean Jarrett,
11 St James Road - Mark Didcock & Vicky O'Conner,
7 St James Road - Beverly Roger, 9 St James Road - Audrey
Buckle & Ray Cox, 28 St James Road - Geoff &
Karen Swinden, 37 St James Road - Thomas Blackburn &
Maureen Salter, 5 Catharine Close - Nicholas & Marilyn
Kennedy, 2 New Road - Anthony & Veronica Fisher,
34 Stonhouse Crescent - Andrew & Maggie Lloyd, 7
Turners Close - Carolyn Fowler-Watts & David Watts,
42 Sugworth Lane - Peter & Valerie Balfour, 15 Sugworth
Crescent - June Grahame, 3 Blossoms Glade - Roger &
Joyce Moorse, 7 Bluebell Ride - Tony Day & Susan
Morley, 12 Oak Avenue - Ivor & Jean Pugh, 13 Sycamore
Crescent - Lene Andersen & Brian Bolder, 20 Sycamore
Crescent - Janet & Peter Kew, Gooseacre Farm - Nick
Frearson, 62 Foxborough Road - Beata & Tomasz Kriszlinska,
55 Foxborough Road - Kayla Tomlinson & Eric Davies,
10 Gooseacre - Brian & Letitia Smith , 5 Gooseacre
- Constance Ward, 2 Bigwood Park - Luke & Jennifer
Graham, 10 Bigwood Park - Egil & Sandra Brownsill,
6 Bigwood Park - Alan & Angela Jordan, 23 Lower
Radley - Jan & Paul Deacon, 33 Lower Radley - Martin
& Sylvia Wilson. |
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AWARDS:
TUBS AND/OR HANGING BASKETS |
Tuckwell
Trophy: Sue
& Keith Mattingley, 28 Bigwood Park. |
Runner
Up: Victor
& Sylvia Bishop, 21 Pebble Hill.
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Highly
Commended:
28 Ferny Close - Valerie & Brian Mott, 20 Bigwood
Park - Margaret & William Bell, 61 Foxborough
Road - Peter & Lita Buckle, 55 Pebble Hill - Kirsteen
Hill, 16 Sycamore Crescent - Valerie Goodings, 8 Blossoms
Glade - Barbara & Kevin Davis, 11 Ferny Close
- Peter & Margaret Heath.
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Commended:
23 St
James Road - Maureen Spiers, 7 Little Howe Close -
Graham & Maureen Plested, 1 St James Terrace -
Jonathan & May Bower, 53 Selwyn Crescent - Peter
& Sheree Buckingham, 6 Catharine Close - Karen
& Victor Gackowski, 13 New Road - Stella Brooks,
4 Stonhouse Crescent - Martin Llewellyn & Sue
Nash, The Bowyer Arms - Katherine Lambert & Andrew
Tolley , 149 Sugworth Lane - Colin & Ann Charlett,
1, Sugworth Crescent - Kenneth Sanders, 5 Oak Avenue
- Nigel & Gaye Greenaway, 20 Blossoms Glade -
Anthony Moyses, 31 Sycamore Crescent - Sylvia McIver,
11 Sycamore Crescent - Lillian Bevington, 98 Kennington
Road - Margaret & Mark Hills, Sycamore House,
Drysdale Close - Ray & Ros Clarke, 40 Foxborough
Road - Elaine & Garry Cook, 9 Bigwood Park - Christopher
& Jennifer Roper, 30 Bigwood Park - Mark &
Marina Hussey, 23 Bigwood Park - Stephen & Susan
East, 16A Bigwood Park - John & Susan Hillsdon,
8, Bigwood Park - Esther & Royston Phipps , 4
Lower Radley Caravan Park - Alex & Mary Brown,
Bakers Close, Lower Radley - Caroline & Graham
Steinsberg
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AWARDS:
MOST COLOURFUL FLOWER GARDENS |
Parish
Council Trophy:
Tim Woods, 50 Sugworth Lane. |
Runner
up: Christine
& Michael Howard, 17 Pebble Hill.
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Highly
Commended:
108 Foxborough Road – Elsie & Roy Fox, 6, Bluebell
Ride – Bernard & Cynthia Woodward, 7, Willow Way
– Margaret Timms, 100 Foxborough Road – Susan Alexander,
10 Ferny Close – Valerie & William Cullen, 30
Ferny Close – Edward McKeown
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Commended:
34 St James Road – Angela &
Michael Murdock, 46 St James Road – Barbara & Colin
Bark, 9 Turners Close – David & Evelyn England,
9 Spinneys Close – Audrey Stocks, 41 Pebble Hill – Norman
& June Cox, 4 Fir Tree Avenue – Ian & Barbara
Douglas-Gilbert, 1, Blossoms Glade – Kenneth & Margaret
Norton, 2 Norfolk Close – Doris Robinson, 9 Foxborough
Road – Jean & Gavin Hopgood |
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SUMMARY |
| Altogether, 95 gardens were nominated
for an award, the distribution of awards between the categories
being as follows. |
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Best
Garden |
Best
Tubs and Baskets |
Most
Colourful |
| Principal awards |
2 |
2 |
2 |
| Highly Commended |
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7 |
6 |
| Commended |
31 |
25 |
9 |
| Total |
44 |
34 |
17 |
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Judging
in progress for the Radley Garden Competition,
2 July
2011.
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| Sponsored by......................................
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| Abingdon Garden Plants of Lodge Hill
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| Ringrose Tree Services
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| Radley Village Shop
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| Berinsfield Community Services
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| Tarmac Ltd
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| Organised by......................................
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| RADLEY PARISH COUNCIL
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| Hospitality ..........................................
| Lunch and teas provided by...
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| Jenny Standen,
on behalf of Radley Parish Council,
assisted on
the day by Marion Natham.
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| Judges................................................
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| Barbara Bingley
David Bingley
David Drummond
Angela Hughes
Pat Leggett
Ann-Marie
Lloyd
Michael Matthews
Alison Peedell
Brian Peedell
Ian Shepherd
Wendy Sinclair
Maureen Winkfield
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| Guides................................................
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| Eric Blanks
Sally Hemsworth
Phyl Howard
Bob Johnston
David Lloyd
Denis Standen
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| Adjudicators.......................................
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| Basil Crowley
Lynda Pasquire
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| Photography by................................
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| Basil Crowley LRPS CPAGB
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| Lynda Pasquire LRPS
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