Summer is starting to bloom in Mukilteo 🌸☀️ Our annual hanging baskets have arrived, and the Public Works crew is hard at work installing them around town today! Keep an eye out as Mukilteo gets a colorful refresh for the summer season. 🌿🌺 A big thank-you to our Public Works team for helping make our community beautiful and welcoming all season long! #IamPublicWorks #Mukilteo #SummerInMukilteo #CommunityInBloom

🌸🌿 Cefn Community Council’s Community in Bloom 2026 is now open! 🌿🌸 Do you have a garden you’re proud of? Why not enter our Community in Bloom 2026 Garden Competition and help celebrate the wonderful gardens across our community! 🌼🏡 🏆 Competition Categories 🌱 Best Small Garden 🌷 Best Large Garden 🪴 Best Container Garden 🌼 Best Garden Overall 🤝 Best Community Garden 🥕 Best Vegetable Garden 🌾 Wonderfully Wild Garden ⭐ Young Gardeners Special Recognition Awards 📍 Open to all residents of: Acrefair, Penybryn, Cefn Mawr, Newbridge, Plasmadoc & Rhosymedre 📅 Closing date for applications: Friday 26th June 2026 📥 To download an application form please click here: PDF Form: cefncommunitycouncil.gov.uk/… Word editable form: cefncommunitycouncil.gov.uk/… 📧 Please return all completed forms to: admin@cefncommunitycouncil.gov.uk 🌸 Gardens will be judged on Thursday 2nd July 2026 ⏰ Time to be agreed Please share and help spread the word across the community 💚🌺 #CommunityInBloom #CefnCommunityCouncil #CefnMawr #Acrefair #Penybryn #Newbridge #Plasmadoc #Rhosymedre #GardenCompetition #CommunityPride #WonderfullyWildGarden

At Lord Dufferin PS, we learn from our teachers/elders & the land itself. Students and neighbours planted seeds and bulbs — acts of care that nurture both community and the earth. What we plant today will bloom into tomorrow’s shared garden @tdsb @cityoftoronto #CommunityInBloom

🌸🌿 Cefn Community Council – Community in Bloom 2025 🌿🌸 What an incredible day we had at this year’s Community in Bloom, hosted by the wonderful Paul Moss of Derwen College! 🌼 ✨ We crowned a brand-new Overall Champion – congratulations to Grazyna Holownia! 👑 ✨ Two fantastic new categories were introduced this year 🌟 ✨ Guests were treated to a stunning live performance by the talented students of Derwen College 🎶 ✨ And of course, we all enjoyed an amazing buffet together 🍴 A huge thank you goes to: 💐 Our Chairman, Mr. Phil Vaughan, for his continued support and leadership 💐 Our councillors who volunteered and made the day run smoothly 💐 Our dedicated judges for their time and expertise 💐 And the biggest thank you of all to our Clerk, Trina Nicholls-Smith – without her, this event simply wouldn’t have come together 👏 🏆 Congratulations to all of our 2025 winners! 🏆 🌼 Best Community Garden 🥇 1st – Plas Telford 🥈 2nd – Alwen Garden Food Forest 🥉 3rd – Lys Y Graig Residents 🌺 Best Small Garden 🥇 1st – Stephen Jones 🥈 2nd – Geoff Langford 🥉 3rd – Carmen White 🌸 Best Container Garden 🥇 1st – Stephen Jones 🥈 2nd – Butch & Michelle Jones 🥉 3rd – Geoff Langford 🌻 Best Large Garden 🥇 1st – Grazyna Holownia 🥈 2nd – Barbara Lloyd 🥉 3rd – David Bullough 🌿 Recognition Awards 🌾 Frank A Biggs – Wonderfully Wild Garden 🥕 Karen Hahm Jones – Best Vegetable Garden 🌸 Young Gardeners Recognition Awards 🌱 Junior Thomas 🌱 Niamh Parry 🌱 Naiomi Parry 🏆 BEST OVERALL GARDEN 2025 – Rose Bowl Winner Grazyna Holownia 👑 💚 Congratulations once again to everyone who took part – your hard work, creativity, and love for gardening continue to make our community shine brighter every year! 🌷 #CommunityInBloom #CefnCommunityCouncil #CefnMawr #Acrefair #Rhosymedre #PlasMadoc #DerwenCollege #Bloom2025 #CommunitySpirit

🌸 #Taunton Flower Show Through My Lens 🌸 Today was a visual feast — and I captured over 100 stunning shots that showcase the colour, creativity, and community spirit of the Taunton Flower Show! 🌿📸 From dazzling displays to joyful moments between visitors, these photos are exceptional — crisp, vibrant, and full of life. If you were there, you might just spot yourself or your favourite bloom! 👉 Take a look and share your favourites! 💬 I’d love to hear which photo speaks to you the most — drop a comment or emoji below! 🔁 Feel free to share — let’s spread the beauty far and wide! facebook.com/share/1G6W4WS9w… #TauntonFlowerShow #CapturedInTaunton #CommunityInBloom #CraigStonePhotography #TauntonTownCentre #flowerpower

🌼 Record-Breaking News from Cefn Community Council! 🌼 Today marks a new 10-year high as our 23rd Community in Bloom competition sees its highest number of applicants in over a decade! 🌸🌿 A huge thank you to everyone who’s already joined — the community spirit is truly blooming! And the best part? There’s still time to apply! 📝 Applications close on July 18th, 2025 📞 To apply, you can call the Council Office Monday-Friday 9am- 4pm. 📥 Or download the application form here: cefncommunitycouncil.gov.uk/… 👉 Garden Competition Application Form 2025 Let’s make this the most beautiful year yet! 🌷🌻🌼 #CefnInBloom #CommunityInBloom #CefnGardens #PrideInOurPlace #CommunitySpirit cefncommunitycouncil.gov.uk

It’s always a summer highlight to visit Helen @helencpope’s beautiful garden at Logie Green Gardens, part of @scotgardens 🌸 A stunning space raising funds for charities including @MSF_UK & @shelterscotland 🌿 #ScotlandsGardenScheme #Fundraising #CommunityInBloom #Edinburgh

PLEASE RETWEETS- WE NEED 50 RETWEETS ASAP: Please Help as we need more applications. 🌼 The @CefnCouncil's Community In Bloom – Garden Competition 2025 🌼 Do you have a garden you're proud of? Whether it’s big, small, in containers, or part of a community space — we want to see it bloom! 🌿🌸 🏆 Competition Categories: 🌱 Best Small Garden 🌳 Best Large Garden 🪴 Best Container Garden 🌼 Best Garden Overall 🌻 Best Community Garden 🍆 Best Vegetable Garden 👧 Young Gardeners Special Recognition Awards 📍 Open to residents of: Acrefair | Penybryn | Cefn Mawr | Newbridge | Plasmadoc | Rhosymedre 🗓️ Closing Date for Applications: Friday, 18th July 2025 📩 Get your application form from: Mrs. T Nicholls-Smith, Clerk to the Council 📍 George Edwards Hall, Cefn Mawr 📞 01978 821298 📧 Email: admin@cefncommunitycouncil.gov.uk Or Click here to download the PDF Version: Garden-cefncommunitycouncil.gov.uk/… Let your garden shine! 🌞 #CommunityInBloom #CefnMawr #Acrefair #Penybryn #Plasmadoc #Newbridge #Rhosymedre #GardenCompetition #Bloom

🌿 What a blooming brilliant day at the Limerick Garden Festival! 💚 A massive thank you to everyone who came out and supported the event — community spirit in full bloom! 🌸 Huge kudos to Carmen Cronin, the @TheMilkMarket team, our expert speakers, and the ever-inspiring Chef @FlavinTom for making it such a success. Special thanks to our incredible sponsors & partners: @LimerickCouncil 🙌 #LimerickGardenFestival #CommunityInBloom #MilkMarketMagic

🌿Thank you for sowing & growing with us! 🌸 Our Garden Party was a beautiful celebration of community, youth, & culinary talent. Grateful to all who made it unforgettable! 💖 #SowAndGrow #GirlsIncMemphis #ThankYouMemphis #CommunityInBloom

Spring is almost here, and our Parks & Recreation Committee has been hard at work making sure our parks and community spaces are ready to bloom! 🌳🌸 The next meeting is happening today, March 10th, at 875 Main Street, Stone Mountain, GA. #CommunityInBloom #SpringIntoAction

🌞 Take a bow @DerwenCollege: What a performance at the Community In Bloom Ceremony 2024 that @RealHughJackman would of been proud of. Well done 👏 #CommunityInBloom #CefnCommunityCouncil #CefnMawr #Acrefair #Rhosymedre #Newbridge #PlasMadoc #AllRoadsLeadToCefn

🌟🌱 Huge congrats to Parker, the 1st ever Young Gardener Award winner at the 22nd Cefn Community in Bloom!🏅 🌿 He wowed guests from @DerwenCollege, Chairman Phil Vaughan, & Clerk Trina Nicholl-Smith with his passion for gardening! 🌸💖 #CefnCommunity #CommunityInBloom

Tulips, Tech and Trends were the key areas of focus at #KubeConEU Read my summary covering the event here. #communityinbloom #CloudNative #cloudnativecon #appdevelopment

Kubernetes Community Days panel, lotsa nodding heads talking about any events' pillars: money, diversity, location, location, location... #KubeCon #CommunityInBloom 🌷

The official CNCF ambassadors list was announced today at KubeCon EU! Sigam os brasileiros: @krol_valencia @jpkrohling #cncf #communityinbloom #KubeCon2023

Did not expect this!! #SHOCKED by the volume and totally worth the #hype. I am at the #KubeCon2023 in Amsterdam and so many interesting things are happening in this #CommunityInBloom. @ITQ thank you for making this possible to attend these wonderful events 😇 . . #ITQlife #ITQ

Love the community highlights and inclusion measures: 👩🏼‍💻 mentoring.cncf.io 🤷🏼‍♀️ glossary.cncf.io #KubeCon #Communityinbloom 🌷

We are excited to officially announce our spring 2023 Ambassadors! We look forward to each of you enriching our community✨ #communityinbloom 🌷 cncf.io/people/ambassadors/

[NEWS from #KubeCon] # CNCF celebrates 58 new Silver members at #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon Europe, surpassing 800 members 🌷 #CommunityinBloom 💐 cncf.io/announcements/2023/0…