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It's time for green-fingered gardeners to get ready to do battle for awards in the 2007 Rochdale Townships in Bloom competition.

This year's competition will be officially started at Rochdale Town Hall at noon on Thursday 24 May.  It will once again provide a local focus to the regionally-organised North West in Bloom awards.

The Rochdale Townships in Bloom competition is all about local people and local projects. It is designed to encourage improvement of the local environment for the benefit of all, with brighter gardens and backyards as well as community projects that help to support learning and enjoyment.

The success of the competition has been greatly helped by the committed support of the competition's sponsors: The All in One Garden Centre, Casey Group and the Observer Group of Newspapers, as main sponsor, helping to make the Townships of Heywood, Pennines, Middleton and Rochdale better places in which to live and work.

Anyone can enter - whether you are a single householder proud of your garden, back yard or hanging basket, a hotel or business with well kept grounds, or a member of a community group involved in local environmental projects, there is a category for you!

Rochdale Townships in Bloom is free to enter and Certificates of Merit will be awarded to prize-winners in each category. There's a new category this year for the best garden at a Council property, sponsored by Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH), which manages the Council's 14,500.

All you need to do to enter is fill in the form and send it in. You should receive confirmation of your entry by 1 July and preliminary judging will take place during the first two weeks of July. Final judging is likely to be the third week of July.

Everyone is welcome to attend the launch event on 24 May - just let the Council know if you are attending by emailing stacey.white@rochdale.gov.uk or phone 01706 925726.

Even if you can't make it, you can start digging and planting - let's see the borough bloom this summer!

Rochdale Townships in Bloom entry categories:

1. Household garden - Prizes to 1st, 2nd and 3rd
2. Back yards, balcony and small patio gardens - Prizes to 1st, 2nd and 3rd
3. The All-in-One Garden Centre hanging baskets trophy
4. Businesses - retail premises, offices, industrial amp; commercial premise
5. Best public house
6. Community groups

• Entry Form: In_Bloom_Entry_Form_2007.pdf