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Green-fingered pupils plant roundabout with riot of colour

27/05/05

Green-fingered pupils from Wildridings and Great Hollands Primary Schools have planted one of Bracknell’s roundabouts with a riot of colour to celebrate Bracknell Flowers – the town’s entry into this year’s Britain in Bloom competition.

The pupils from the Netherton and Wordsworth schools planted Station Roundabout with dozens of dahliettas which they had been caring for in the classroom. By mid June the flowers will have bloomed into vivid orange bringing brightness to Bracknell’s roadsides.

Staff from Bracknell Forest Borough Council’s Landscape Services team delivered pots of seedlings to the pupils at school where they learned how to care for and nurture them.

The Council’s landscape team have a year-long programme of activities planned with local schools aimed at increasing pupils’ awareness of their environment and teaching them how they can care for and improve the area in which they live.

The pupils’ roundabout will form part of the Bracknell Flowers entry into this year’s Thames and Chilterns Regional competition for Britain in Bloom when judges from the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) will visit Bracknell to assess the entry.

Helen Barnett, from major sponsor and organiser of Bracknell Flowers Bracknell Regeneration Partnership (BRP), said: “It’s wonderful that so many young people are showing an interest in the local environment and taking part in Bracknell Flowers this year.

“Bracknell has been so successful in the competition in previous years and I am confident that if the whole community gets involved in the project and cares for their local environment we will be successful again this year.”