This year’s annual Slough in Bloom competition has been launched.

After last years competition was cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the annual event will return once more this year.

The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in August.

Residents have until July 3 to enter ahead of judging on July 12, with 11 different categories to enter from.

The categories are: residential front garden, residential hanging baskets, window boxes and containers, community project, business/commercial/hospital project, student project, public house/restaurant/hotel, best allotment plot, best allotment newcomer and sponsored roundabout/roadside planting.

Slough Borough Council tenants can also enter the Front garden including hanging baskets and communal garden projects.

Bruce Hicks, parks and open space officer, said: “We have been working with Slough in Bloom for 28 years, and are proud to support them again this year and can’t wait to see your gardens, allotments, and hanging baskets entries brightening up our town. As well as making your own entries we would encourage you to think about any communal areas or garden and allotment projects you want to nominate.

“This competition was cancelled last year because of Covid and this is a chance for everyone to show what great community spirit we have here in Slough, how proud our residents are to live here, and what pride they take in their local areas.”

Margaret Inniss, Chairman of Slough in Bloom, said: "I want to encourage everyone who has a garden or tubs and hanging baskets on their premises to enter the competition and let us recognise your contribution to brightening up our town.

"In addition to the splash of colour you add to the townscape, you will also be providing vital corridors for insects and other wildlife. We look forward to receiving a bumper crop of entries this year, from established and new gardeners alike.”

If you would like to enter, forms are available in libraries and community hubs and from all allotment sites.

Or, you can email sloughinbloom@gmail.com or phone 01753 595838.

The form is also available on Slough Borough Council’s website.