WHAT's ON IN GODALMING?

GOLO IS TEN YEARS OLD

On Saturday 24th November - come and celebrate with us at the Christmas Festival in the High Street - buy a ticket for a £ and you could be a winner - draw at midday...

MEMORIAL GARDEN OFFICIAL OPENING

To mark the 100th anniversary of the armistice of the First World War, a memorial garden has been created in Nightingale Road Cemetery to honour the 281 men from Godalming who died in the Great War, together with all those in the Godalming community who were affected by the war. A dedication service will take place at 11:00am on Saturday 10th November - all are welcome to attend.

GO GODALMING OPEN MEETING

Will be held at the Godalming Baptist Church, Queen Street, Godalming on Wednesday 7th November - 12.15 for 12.30pm - all are welcome but please log in with secretary Anne Eve if you want a buffet lunch - secretaryGIB@gogodalming.org.uk

SPORT GODALMING AWARDS 2018

Our annual awards evening will be held at the Wilfrid Noyce Centre on Friday 26th October commencing at 7pm - all are welcome.

Godalming in bloom

Godalming in Bloom 2018 was sponsored by Cornmeter, J Gorringe & Son Funeral Directors, Godalming Town Council, Seymours Estate Agents, Shorts, Squires Garden Centre in Milford and Waitrose in Godalming.

Godalming in Bloom 2018 Sponsors

We are so grateful to our sponsors for funding the 2018 competition and would like express our sincere thanks for their sponsorship and support.

Godalming in Bloom is a fun and friendly gardening competition, open to anyone and everyone who gardens in Binscombe, Busbridge, Farncombe and Godalming.

Godalming in Bloom is run by horticulturalists working as volunteers who hope to encourage everyone to garden and take care of the beautiful area in which we are so lucky to live in.

We visit schools, allotments, residential homes, restaurants, pubs, offices, anywhere and everywhere we can encourage people to garden. We'd like to encourage you to grow plants that are beneficial for bees and other insects, and to look after our wildlife and we invite you to enter our fun and friendly competition.

So what happened this year?

The following is a summary of who won what at the prize-giving evening

Following an intensive programme of judging in June, the annual prize-giving took place at the Wilfrid Noyce Centre on Tuesday 10^th July in front of a record audience.

Godalming in Bloom celebrates the horticultural best of local Allotments, Commercial properties, Gardens and Schools.

This year, we also announced the winner of the design competition of a Memorial Garden to be created at Nightingale Road Cemetery, which will be officially opened on 10^th November as part of the Armistice Centenary celebrations.

Our thanks to our sponsors this year, without them we would struggle to achieve our programme and with it, the professionalism that is expected from us – our thanks to Cornmeter, Gorringes, Godalming Town Council, Seymours, Shorts, Squires and Waitrose.

The winners were:

SCHOOLS

Waitrose Cup – Moss Lane School
WWF – Green Oak School
Doris Woods – Busbridge Junior School
Barlow/Roffe Swayne – Loseley Fields School
Rotary Shield – Busbridge Infant School
Diary Cup – The Wharf Nursery School

Presentation of ‘Highly Commended’ certificates were presented to - Farncombe Infant School – Broadwater School – St Edmunds School – St Hilary’s School. All the Schools also received Gardening Vouchers from Squires.

ALLOTMENTS

Gordon-Smith Tankard – Nadia Barsoum
Waverley Glass Trophy – Lawrence Pickett
Cornmeter Trophy – PeterJohn Lee
Jack Morris – Alan Bennett

COMMERCIAL

Multiple Retailers – Gorringe & Son
Multiple Stores – Cook
Independent Retailer – No. 2 Church Street
Professional Services – Cornmeter
Best Large Garden (Front) – The Cricketers, Farncombe
Best Large Garden (Back) – The White Hart, Farncombe
Best Pub Garden – The Richmond Arms, Godalming
Best Pub – The Star, Godalming
Gordon Devereux Rose Bowl – Godalming Town Council

GARDENS

GG Shield Community Gardens – Sunrise Senior Living
GG Shield Managed Community Gardens – Meadrow Court
Rocco & Betty Award – James Helyer
Small Garden – Elizabeth Ayres
Mayor’s Rose Bowl – John Hockley
Town Council Award – Gareth Addison
Rose Turk Shield – James Remnant
Legg Shield – Alison Dale
Special Award – Jennifer Snapes
GG Shield (private residences) – Julie Bunting
Dawn Waters Trophy – Roy & Josephine Bicknell
GOLO Gardener of the Year – Roy & Josephine Bicknell

Sarah Collins was presented with the Chairman’s Award.

MEMORIAL GARDEN ANNOUNCEMENT

Past Mayor of Godalming David Hunter announced the winner of the design competition was Michele Clackson.

Our thanks also to Pizza Express who provided us with pizzas at the prize-giving - to Maggie Swaden – Chairman, Milford Horticultural Society – who gave an inspirational talk and to the Mayor of Godalming who attended all the judging visits this year.

Simon Crowther – Chairman

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BROWSE THE 2018 WINNERS PHOTO GALLERY LINKS
See 2018 Winners here
See 2018 Entrants here

At our prize-giving evening, we said 'goodbye' to Tony and Cathy Gordon-Smith, who have been on our team for many years running the Allotment side of our competition - they will be missed...

Beth Otway is also sorely missed - however she is still very busy and writes for Vantage Point Magazine – read her monthly column and go to www.pumpkinbeth.com for more gardening tips & advice.

If you are interested in becoming involved, let chairman Simon Crowther - simoncrowther7@gmail.com or secretary Anne Eve at secretaryGIB@gogodalming.org.uk know.