Usk in Bloom
Local residents formed the Usk in Bloom committee in 1980. The voluntary committee aims to improve the local environment by the imaginative planting of trees, shrubs, bulbs and floral displays; and to foster partnerships with other organisations and residents for work on environmental issues in the town. The town won the "Wales in Bloom" competition for 27 times in a row between 1982 and 2010; won the "large village" category of "Britain in Bloom" four times; and twice represented the United Kingdom in European competitions.
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Famous quotes containing the word bloom:
“Half-opening her lips to the frost’s morning sigh, how strangely the rose has smiled on a swift-fleeting day of September!
How audacious it is to advance in stately manner before the blue-tit fluttering in the shrubs that have long lost their leaves, like a queen with the spring’s greeting on her lips;
to bloom with steadfast hope that, parted from the cold flower-bed, she may be the last to cling, intoxicated, to a young hostess’s breast.”
—Afanasi Fet (1820–1892)