Judging for Market Harborough in Bloom planting at Market Harborough station

​Market Harborough in Bloom Volunteers are the Station Adopters for Market Harborough station. They maintain the award-winning amenity planting across the town centre, including the station. Harborough Rail Users maintain close links with them, with Chair Steve Jones also being one of the Station Adopters. 
Judging for the East Midlands in Bloom regional competition took place on Monday 30th June.  Timing for this was hardly ideal, as the station is partly a building site for the platform reconstruction, see item below at 28th June.  However, the station is an important part of Market Harborough in Bloom and the judges visited, along with EMR’s Community Engagement manager, Kaye Robinson, on 30th June.  Despite the environs of the station looking in places like an industrial wasteland, the judges seemed impressed with the volunteers’ efforts.  We await their verdict!

EMR’s Community Engagement Manager Kaye Robinson with the two East Midlands in Bloom judges and three members of Market Harborough in Bloom Volunteers at Market Harborough station on 30th June 2025.  Though open for use, the station was also a construction site, so does not look at its best in the photograph! Nonetheless, the judges were able to inspect the planting boxes and other amenity works by the station adopters.
Picture: Steve Jones