Moseley in Bloom http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk Moseley volunteers growing a cleaner, greener community Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:07:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Judgment Day Looms for those that Bloom! http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/2010/08/judgment-day-looms-for-moseley-in-bloom/ http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/2010/08/judgment-day-looms-for-moseley-in-bloom/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:14:28 +0000 Adam Styler http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/?p=732 img_6186Well this is it – it’s our last chance to impress the national judges! Last time we were entered into the National competition (2008), we were awarded silver gilt. Can we notch it up to a Gold award or even category winners? The stakes are even higher this time!


Please see the summary below of upcoming activities throughout the next couple of weeks. Please do come and help – if you work locally – can you persuade your team to help and volunteer?

Saturday & Sunday

7th & 8th August

 National Britain in Bloom Judging Preparation The time has come again and we need to ensure Moseley in Spick & Span for the regional Heart of England in Bloom campaign.

Judges will be appearing in Moseley judging our efforts – so it’s the last chance for us to ensure everything is neat and tidy!

Areas of focus will be:

  • Tree bases
  • Village wines (on corner of Woodbridge Road)
  • Car Park beds
  • Network Rail Entrance
  • King David School Entrance
  • St Marys Church & alley
  • Bristol Street Motors

There is plenty to be done over the weekend and we need your support!

Please come down to the Meteor Ford site on both days from 10.00am to help us to achieve that hard to get Gold for the national campaign!

Please email info@moseleyinbloom.org.uk
Monday 9th, Tuesday  10th & Wednesday 11th Final Preparations Areas to be covered are as follows:

  • BT Site
  • Moseley Gate

Please email info@moseleyinbloom.org.uk
Thursday 12th More Final Preparations Areas that need to be covered:

  • Dead heading floral displays
  • Ensure car park is litter free
  • CDT area
  • Bases of lampposts

Please email info@moseleyinbloom.org.uk
Friday 13th Judgment Day Again we need volunteers to help as runners in the morning. This entails going around the judging circuit to help ensure it is litter free.

The judges will be here from 9.30am (possibly sooner) so it will be an early start.

We need you to help to ensure that as much litter is picked up and disposed of so if you are in the area, please help and pick up the litter on your way.

Please email info@moseleyinbloom.org.uk



I hope you can join us on these days. If you know of friends, family or even colleagues that may be interested, please feel free to forward this email on along with my contact details.


Looking forward to seeing you over the next week or so….

]]> http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/2010/08/judgment-day-looms-for-moseley-in-bloom/feed/ 0 Judging Alert and how to enter the Moseley in Bloom Awards 2010 http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/2010/07/judging-alert-and-how-to-enter-the-moseley-in-bloom-awards-2010/ http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/2010/07/judging-alert-and-how-to-enter-the-moseley-in-bloom-awards-2010/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:15:03 +0000 Adam Styler http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/?p=717 2009-mib-awards-night025Yes – the time is fast approaching us and we have our first judging day for the regional Heart of England in Bloom campaign taking place on Thursday 15th July hotly pursued by being judged by the national Britain in Bloom campaign on Friday 13th August!

Make a Clean Sweep!

Please Ensure that Your Premises are Spick and Span and Litter Free

Watch Out for Weeds and Water Plants and Flowers

The Moseley in Bloom Awards 2010

The Moseley in Bloom awards give public recognition to people and businesses that are A Credit to the Community

Could You Be One of these Winners?


Categories include:

  • Star Shop
  • Top Take Away
  • Rosiest Restaurant
  • Most Cultivating Kids
  • Most Blooming Boozer
  • Most Floral Faith Group
  • Most Inspired Institution
  • Most Blossoming Business
  • Most Flourishing Front Garden



Entrants are judged on their horticultural display and the cleanliness of their forecourts or front gardens.


Standards and presentation will be assessed on the judging day and throughout the summer.


Awards will be presented at the Moseley in Bloom Celebration Evening in the autumn.


Winners will be featured on our web site, in local publicity and are likely to receive press coverage.


To enter, simply print off the entry form below,  fill in the details and return to:


The MIB Awards,c/o The Moseley Exchange, 149 Alcester Road, Moseley B13 8JP


JUDGING ALERT AND MIB AWARDS 2010 ENTRY FORM


Closing date for entires is 31st July.

]]> http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/2010/07/judging-alert-and-how-to-enter-the-moseley-in-bloom-awards-2010/feed/ 0 Welcome to Moseley’s Chicks… http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/2010/06/welcome-to-moseleys-chicks/ http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/2010/06/welcome-to-moseleys-chicks/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:11:28 +0000 Adam Styler http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/?p=702 hensWith more and more people looking at ways of “growing their own”, it’s no supprise that hen keeping is also growing in popularity! You’d be forgiven to think it’s a new ‘fad’, but it has in fact been popular for many years!


Below Deborah Taylor and Judy Ward – Moseley’s very own chicks set the scene for urban hen keeping…

A novice hen keeper

We’d started looking after my neighbours’ hens occasionally and were dithering about whether to start keeping them ourselves when, out of the blue, my brother gave me a hen coop for Christmas.  It was now or never.  We visited Oak Meadow Farm at Romsley, dithered some more and ended up choosing three lovely chickens.  The children named them (don’t ask!) and we were off.  The farm gave us a guide to keeping chickens telling us all we needed to know and you can get all their stuff from the pet shop in York Road, Kings Heath.


They are really easy to keep (food, water and cleaning out – like most pets) but with the added advantage of wonderful eggs which taste much better than the usual.


They make great pets, are quite tame and are happy to be stroked.  We keep them secure from foxes, but they’re out whenever we’re in the garden.  Watching their antics is much better than the average episode of Big Brother!


Judy Ward

Hotel-on-Legs

My hen keeping began 18 years ago when my son easily persuaded me to allocate a space in the garden so he could build a hen house for a part of his Duke of Edinburgh award and many hens later we have never looked back!!


This first hotel – on – legs was enclosed in a secure wire netting run and at a later date gained a perpex roof to avoid the inevitable quagmire from rain.


Their winter quarters are in a large greenhouse where the little bugs and beasties are pecked out and the soil turned over; old charlie fox leapt through the glass one night and did his worst so now a simple narrow green plastic fence reinforces the lower windows. Another small travelling arc completes the choice for summer, moving over rough grass.


The eggs are a constant pleasure for us and also nourishing young children and pregnant mums! Holidays are no problem with several keen neighbours more than willing to realise a hidden dream.


Defintely a success story.


We will soon be providing you with more information on how you can keep chickens so be sure to come back!

Deborah Taylor.

]]> http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/2010/06/welcome-to-moseleys-chicks/feed/ 0 Moseley in Bloom Open Gardens 2010 http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/2010/06/moseley-in-bloom-open-gardens-2010/ http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/2010/06/moseley-in-bloom-open-gardens-2010/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:43:58 +0000 Adam Styler http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/?p=698 mib-og2009-08The wait is almost over, the time is nearly here.  Moseley opens its gardens again, this month – the weekend of 19th and 20th June to be precise.  This will be the fourth year of opening a range of gardens in Moseley and the past three years have been a fantastic success.


Last year we had just over 1000 visitors who came wandering through Moseley to enjoy the very different gardens, buy some plants, see the art displays, hear some music and indulge in tea and cakes.  Attendance was well up on the previous year and Open Gardens was our biggest single fund-raiser and a real community event. Please note: All proceeds go towards the floral displays in Moseley Village.



You are in for a treat this year as well.  Over the weekend we are opening 29 gardens, most of them different from last year though a couple of the old favourites are back.  You will be struck by the amazing diversity our community has to offer and we have gardens in Moseley roads we have not included previously.  Big gardens, small ones, some professionally designed, some themed, some evolved organically – but all loved by their owners.  There really is something for everyone.


Visit the Open Gardens section for more details!

]]> http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/2010/06/moseley-in-bloom-open-gardens-2010/feed/ 0 June’s Volunteering Activities and how to get your hands on a free pair of Open Gardens 2010 tickets!! http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/2010/06/junes-volunteering-activities/ http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/2010/06/junes-volunteering-activities/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:42:19 +0000 Adam Styler http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/?p=657 mib-og2009-12It’s certainly now the busiest part of the season and again Moseley in Bloom is calling you to arms!


The sun is shining and hopefully today marks the start of our (dare I say it!) barbeque summer! You will probably have noticed that the floral displays are now up around the village and it wont be long before your visual senses are stimulated for the season…


Please see the summary below of upcoming activities in June and where we need your help and also find out how you can get your hands on a free pair of Open Gardens 2010 tickets!

Saturday & Sunday

5th & 6th June

Meteoric Makeover 2010

 Well the compost has been mixed and the barrels re-filled! You may have noticed that most of the barrels have been planted up already getting an earlier start than last year.

What remains now is clearing the bed on Wake Green Road from the spring display ready for it to be planted up!

If you didn’t already know – many of this year’s plants have been selected as a result of successful harvesting of the runner beans in 2009 at the site – we have more runner beans this year, along with climbing courgettes and even cucumbers to name a few!

Come and join us on the mornings of Saturday and Sunday at the Meteor Ford site, St Mary’s Row, Moseley from 10.00am each day!

If you are interested in participating, please email info@moseleyinbloom.org.uk or contact me (Adam Styler) on 07961 434 896.

Let’s grow on last year’s success and feed Moseley!

Saturday & Sunday

19th & 20th June

Open Gardens Weekend 2010

 This is the Big one and the most anticipated event in our calendar!

With around 30 gardens this year – and high hopes of beating last year’s record number of visitors we need your help to man ticket stands, plant stalls and help man the refreshments for those parched from walking all over Moseley!

In all we need approximately 20 volunteers for Saturday and again another 20 volunteers for Sunday. Each shift is only 2 ½ hours!

If you can help, please email info@moseleyinbloom.org.uk or contact me (Adam Styler) on 07961 434 869.

All helpers receive a complimentary ticket to view the gardens too – so now is your chance to make the most of this volunteering opportunity!

This event is the single biggest fundraiser for Moseley in Bloom with the proceeds going towards to floral display in the village.

Saturday

29th June

Farmers Market Stall

 On Saturday 26th June we are holding our Farmers Market Stall. We still need volunteers to cover some of the shifts.

If you can help with one of these shifts – please email contact Anne Roxburgh on pebbles@dragonslair73.wanadoo.co.uk.

The Important bit…

Please do come prepared on the days. Whilst we hope that the summer is upon us, do make sure you bring some warm clothes with you and a waterproof coat. Also bring some suitable footwear (boots are ideal) if you are gardening.

If you have gardening gloves and your own equipment such as trowels, forks and other weeding instruments, please do bring them (labelled with your name). If you don’t have any in your possession then don’t worry – we have spare gloves and some spare tools that you can use.

We hope you can join us on these days. If you know of friends, family or even colleagues that may be interested, please feel free to invite them along.

Look out for next month’s activities which include the pre-judging preparations!

Looking forward to seeing you all soon.

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