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"Every year since 1964, towns across the UK have bloomed with hanging baskets
and brightly coloured flowerbeds planted by residents.
They wield their trowels in aid of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Britain in
Bloom competition, a coveted accolade for the 1,600 communities that enter each
year.
Now, the charity is launching a new award for railway stations to honour the
volunteers who keep platforms planted with cheerful flowers and pretty shrubs.
Five of the best have been shortlisted for the RHS Railway Stations in Bloom
competition, marked for their beauty but also for how well they welcome
wildlife and withstand changing climate conditions.
The winner, announced this week, was the Cardross Community Organic Garden in
Scotland. The RHS said: “The judges were especially impressed by how active the
group was in including different members of the community in the station’s
activities, from school children, Brownies to other volunteering and gardening
groups”. But all of the railway gardens are impressive."
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