Kilgetty in Bloom is back for 2023.

The entry forms for this year’s competition are now in the Pharmacy and Bridge Stores/Post Office.

Forms and entry fee have to be returned to the shops by Wednesday, July 5 and the judges will be visiting the gardens from 9.30 am on Wednesday, July 12.

You can choose to enter up to 5 classes as follows:

• Class 1 - Front Garden

• Class 2 - Rear Garden

• Class 3 - Display with window boxes/Tubs/Hanging Baskets

• Class 4 - Over 80 year olds gardener’s garden.

• Class 5 - Original Garden theme (eg. Poem, comedy, topical)

• Class 6 - 1st time entry – front or rear garden

• Class 7 - Vegetable Garden.

• Class 8 - Creative Feature (eg. Bridge, pergola, well etc)

• Class 9 - Best overall garden – Shillingford Park Residents only.

All entrants will be invited to a Strawberry Tea and trophy presentation at Kilgetty Community Centre, with the date to be announced in the Pharmacy window at a later date.

The Competition is organized by volunteers from Begelly Kilgetty Community Association, who also plant up the village flowerbeds and keep the Community Garden looking lovely.

The recent very dry weather has made it difficult for gardeners to get everything looking quite as green or colourful as they would like but this should not stop you entering the competition.

The judges are also volunteers who live outside of Kilgetty or Begelly and as they are amateurs, they are not expecting Kew Gardens standard!

If you haven’t entered before there is a class for first time entry so please join in and have a go this year and a class for letting your imagination free reign on an original theme.

These, in the past, have included - ‘Teddy Bears Picnic’, ‘Tea for Two’, ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall’ and ‘I did it my way’, complete with poem.

Good luck to everyone!