Spots of paradise throughout the Kerrier district have been descended upon by the judges of Coastline Housing's garden competition.
Gardens featuring wonderful water features, delicious award-winning vegetables, hand-made models of windmills and watermills and even some singing and dancing flowers were discovered with delight by the judges of the annual garden competition.
A number of customers of the Company living in towns and villages across Kerrier including Camborne, Redruth, Helston, Mullion, Illogan, Mawnan Smith, Constantine and Mabe all proudly entered their gardens into the contest.
A huge range of imaginative displays had been created by the enthusiastic gardeners including topiary, colourful rockeries and rose gardens. A common theme in this year's competition was sustainability, with many entrants carefully recycling 'rubbish' into unusual planters and garden ornaments.
The judges also had the unusual pleasure of meeting a family of over 220 gnomes and garden ornaments on their visit to one alternative garden in Camborne.
Chairman of Coastline Housing, Dr John Lander, and professional gardener, Jeannie Bates, had the difficult job of judging all the many superb entries in this year's competition - and braving some extremely bad weather in order to do so!
Dr Lander said: "Once again I welcomed the opportunity to meet and talk with so many of our residents. Some of them have had to show great tenacity and courage to create and maintain their gardens to such a high standard. We very much appreciate the time and effort of all those who entered the competition."
Jeannie Bates added: "It's great that the competition is so popular and it's a real pleasure to see everyone's gardens and share the inspiration and joy of gardening."
The overall winner of the Neil Dutton Memorial Cup was David Titley of Redruth.
The other winners are listed below:
Class one - most attractive small garden: 1 - D Pellow, Redruth; 2 - M G Brown, Redruth.
Class two - most attractive large garden: 1 - T A & B Rowe, Illogan and G Meagor, Sithney (joint first); 2 - R T Hocking, Redruth and B Deacon, Sithney (joint second).
Class three - most attractive garden for a flat: 1 - D, Rogers, Helston; 2 - D B Freeman, Illogan.
Class four - most attractive garden for a supported housing property: 1 - Mr and Mrs Pike, Mawgan and Y Burdekin, Mawgan (joint first); 2, G W Feasey, Redruth; Highly Commended: H Beeslee, Mullion; B E A Symons, Camborne.
Class five - most attractive new garden built since January 2006: 1 - T J Lucas, St Keverne; 2 - J Mason, Mawnan Smith.
Class six - best vegetable garden: 1 - D Tippett, Camborne.
Class seven - best alternative garden: 1 - Mr and Mrs Griffin, Helston; 2 - D Tippett, Camborne.
Class eight - best garden by a gardener with disabilities: 1 - D Titley, Redruth; B A Peek, Mabe.
