Tenants of South Somerset Homes awarded for
their beautiful gardens
(Wincanton, Castle Cary and surrounding villages)
16 October 2006

South Somerset Homes recently awarded their tenants for keeping such beautiful colourful gardens. This is an annual event, which is open to all tenants of South Somerset Homes.

This year’s competition attracted over 100 entries in the following categories:

Best Front Garden, Best Back Garden, Best Container Garden / Hanging Basket Garden, Best Theme / Feature Garden, Best Vegetable Garden, Best Road / Sheltered Scheme Garden and Children’s Chance and Colouring Competition.

Pictured here are the Garden Competition winners with Ted Marsh (Chairman of Area East Resident Partnership) (left) and Andrew Bendell (Head of Housing Management, SSH) (centre), who presented the awards

Maureen Emery, Wincanton Town Councillor was one of the judges and commented, “I was very impressed by both the imaginative use of planting and colour plus the obvious amount of hard work that had been put into the gardens entered.”

A presentation ceremony for all the entrants and prize winners took place recently at Bruton Unionist Club.

The winners are as follows:

Best Front
1st Patricia Lampert, Wincanton
2nd Stanley Collins, Ilchester
3rd Bernard & Marion Rydon, Ilchester

Best Back Garden
1st June and Malcolm Higgins, Castle Cary
JOINT 2nd Alan & Marie Romans, Marston Magna
JOINT 2nd John & Faith Barker, Kingsdon

Best Container Garden
1st Patricia Lampert, Wincanton
2nd June and Malcolm Higgins, Castle Cary
3rd Ann Cook, Wincanton

Best Theme Garden
1st Wendy Gorick, Castle Cary

Best Feature Garden
1st John & Faith Barker, Kingsdon

Best Vegetable Garden
1st William Tallon, Sparkford
2nd Mary Whitehead, Kingsdon
3rd Leslie Edwards, Sparkford

Best Road Garden
1st Kingshams, Ilchester

Highly Commended
Tony Morgan, Wincanton

Andrew Bendell, Head of Housing Management at South Somerset Homes said, “"This competition gives our tenants a fun incentive to take pride in their gardens. Once again, our tenants did not disappoint the judges, who were delighted with the high standard of entries of the beautiful gardens, window boxes, tubs and hanging baskets on display. These gardens really have a positive effect on the whole community."

Pictured here from left to right is Wendy Gorick (1st prize winner in Best Themed Garden), Ted Marsh (Chairman of Area East Resident Partnership), June Higgins (Ist prize winner in Best Rear Garden and 2nd prize in Best Container Garden), Andrew Bendell (Head of Housing Management, SSH) who presented the awards and Patricia Lampert (1st Prize Winner in Best Font Garden and Best Container Garden)