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Volunteers aiming to improve the environment for people who visit or live in Oakham. Our work is funded by our generous sponsors, donations and lottery.
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Oakham In Bloom was formed in August 1997 – the committee consists entirely of volunteers and works in partnership with Oakham Town Council, Rutland County Council, schools and youth groups, voluntary organisations, residents and businesses. The committee and the gardening and fundraising volunteers strive to: make Oakham beautiful and encourage the community to plant and care for flowers, trees a

nd shrubs. We strive to integrate biodiversity gain into our scheme through providing ready sources of flowers for pollinators as well as using native plants. We are involved in many projects around the town all year round, from planting baskets, containers and beds to bigger challenges such as the bypass roundabouts. Although we work on improving public land we get no monies from either Rutland County Council or Oakham Town Council. Oakham In Bloom has taken on numerous projects, large and small, since its foundation, from the All Saints Memorial bed, Lands End bed, the roundabouts pretty rose beds on Burley Road to the Rutland County Museum garden and the Prairie Garden at the Library. As well as our own projects, we are keen to support other organisations in floral and environmental projects, such as school vegetable gardens and The Woodland Trust’s Gorse Field Wood, Harris Grove & Ball’s Meadow. We also support other local and national organisations with similar aims, such as the Rutland Beekeepers Association and The Woodland Trust. Each year we enter Oakham in the East Midlands In Bloom competition – such a fantastic way to reward the efforts of all our volunteers and supporters. Success in East Midlands In Bloom invites us to the Britain In Bloom competition for the following year. We also organise local awards each year, with residents and businesses competing for best gardens and floral displays – an awards ceremony is held every September.

01/08/2022

Tubs doing nicely

09/07/2022

Early morning double watering of the library beds before it hotted up

05/07/2022

Out with Samantha giving things a trim, dead heading, w**ding and watering

04/07/2022

Planted some mature self grown Verbena bonariensis, watered and w**ded the Burley Road Roundabout this evening

03/07/2022

Lavenders coming out under the Spitfire. Lots of flowers in grass surrounding it so a careful trim.

03/07/2022

Removing the annuals that had gone over today but plenty more flowers on Burley Road Roundabout

03/07/2022

Lavenders and sea holly at the bicycle bed looking good after a tidy

29/06/2022

Dead heading the French Marigolds and Cosmos tonight after watering them.

28/06/2022

Watering the containers around the town tonight. The flowers are growing very quickly now.

28/06/2022

Replanting the Langham roundabout with Purple Sage and lavenders all grown from cuttings took last year

22/06/2022

Given the WI barrow a good soaking tonight

22/06/2022

This border is full of flowers grown from seed. It shows for less than £3 in seeds you can create a pretty flower border if you’re prepared to grow the plants yourself and wait.

12/06/2022

The summer bedding is taking off especially with the regular feeding.

10/06/2022

We were out with some beers to fill the newly installed slug traps. We have also put wool down.

08/06/2022

An evening watering the containers

04/06/2022

Wool pellets to protect to protect the young plants from slugs

02/06/2022

OIB Lands End Bed today looking colourful for Oakham Show

30/05/2022

The plants are flowering thanks to the intense watering regime that gets the plants growing quickly and prevents shock to the new plants

27/05/2022

Given the new flowers a proper soaking

27/05/2022

Thank you to our brilliant volunteers for planting and HMP Stocken Hall Prison for growing our summer flowers

26/05/2022

Flowers coming on well. Craig spent last week pulling up some invasive grasses

22/05/2022

OIB regular maintenance of Lands End Bed by our brilliant volunteers

19/05/2022

Burley Road Roundabout

19/05/2022

Landsend Border with oriental poppies Allegro

24/04/2022

The team sowing the annual flowers. Each batch of seeds is weighed out to give 3g per square metre. It’s mixed with sieved sand and spread evenly across the site. The seeds are tickled in by rake then compacted by walking over it. Pictorial Meadows Sundance and classic mix used.

22/04/2022

Planting wildflower seeds on Landsend this Sunday at 9:30. Please feel free to join us. Just bring a rake.

15/04/2022

Just finishing off preparing the Landsend Roundabout for the wildflower seeds next week

27/02/2022

Our brilliant volunteers doing enjoying the spring sunshine to do a spring tidy up.

21/09/2021

Friday 24th September at 12:30 All SAINT Church, Church Street Oakham. Cutting back old flowers, garden shear highly recommended and light w**ding
Sunday 26th September 9:30 Burley Road Roundabout Only 2 beds to clear of annuals to tidy it up and so we can plant perennials. The annuals come up easily by hand. Led by Chris
Monday 27th September Bicycle Bed dead heading and w**ding.
Friday 1st October Prairie Bed Dead Heading

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