Chatteris In Bloom

Work party today remove Jared planter was rotting inside so replaced with pots donated by the family of the late Dorathy Davies she left a lot more which will be placed at various places around town for your enjoyment please inform us if you see any one touching them other than anyone in a orange in bloom hi vis we do have cctv coverage where we have placed them and hopefully eyes on the ground , also worked at market Hill, planters at the memorial inside troughs and sited a sundial at the sensory garden we have also started putting some around the world art installations out big thank you to all volunteers who turned up today we are now doing work parties each week Tuesday and Thursday 9 30 am usually start at Market Hill Bandstand

Two days in the life of Chatteris in Bloom yesterday volunteers weeding and planting veg @ Wenny roundabout today Paint workshop at Band stand painting tyre art installations 3 fish and a snake for our theme this year big Tks to PaintWell for donating majority of the paint next workshop same place 3.30pm till 6 .30pm weather permitting

Planting day today in sunshine ,wind,rain and even hail stones our dedicated volunteers ploughed through it all regardless and two and half hours later the whole town was planted with some weeding done too

Yesterday the hanging baskets from Holwoods arrived we will be putting them up today along with the festival bunting please be patient if you see us about and tomorrow our working party will be planting all the troughs and planters then you will see in the evenings every now and then Ormond the float with Nick from Holwood and volunteers keeping them watered till the end of season ,we would like to thank Robert Smith and Christmas Lights team Chris Savill and Lenney the Legend who help us put them up and all our team who start very early and get the baskets to the bottom of all the lamp posts with wheelbarrows

Community project this year is tyre creations we are asking you to make planters or creations could be animals insects,flowers or your own imagination some ideas below we will then create a map for people to walk around town and judge them putting their favourite choice in a peice of paper and gives to any member of Chatteris in bloom or drop of at council chambers . We will be doing workshops providing Tyres and paint at market Hill bandstand Wednesday 17th June 3.30-6m or Saturday 13th 10-2pm or if you can’t make the workshops you can pick
up from the front garden of 42wenny estate either at the frontnear the path or behind the bins just help yourself will be there from June 10th They should be done by end of June and remain till end of zzaugust you can always use as a planter in

tp lighting outlet front bed project this is often driven over so we have put sharp sand and pebbles of which the pebbles on the outside we are asking members of the public to take home and paint and return to add a little colour please leave the tp 24 lighting stones there are three flowers if anyone fancy doing more ,nearer the time of judging we will put succulents in that might withstand being driven over there is already a ladybird someone donated have fun

Tuesday 2nd June work party

Tomorrow is our regular monthly litter pick. Join us at 10am in the Church Lane car park with clothing suitable for the weather ☂️.

Due to the threat of rain, we'll make decisions on whether we actually have a session in the car park itself. We may shorten the session should conditions worsen.