2009 Competition Winners
Best Kept Garden
Winner: Eddie Polland, Whitehead.
Runner-Up: John O’Neill, Carrickfergus.
Runner-Up: Jimmy Shanks, Carrickfergus.
Runner-Up: Robert Cully, Carrickfergus.
Best Kept Container Garden
Winner: Norma Clark, Carrickfergus.
Runner-Up: Christopher Betts, Carrickfergus.
Runner-Up: Ernie Millar, Greenisland.
Runner-Up: Robert Welch, Eden.
Best Kept Community Planting Scheme
Winner: Brighter Whitehead (Whitehead Town Display).
Runner-Up: Riverbrook Residents Association, Whitehead.
Runner-Up: Greenisland Environmental & Heritage Group (Town Display).
Runner-Up: Kilroot Orange Hall, Eden.
Best Kept Allotment (sponsored by Sunnybank Nursery and Garden Centre)
Winner: Andrew and Carrie Gault, Carrickfergus.
Runner-Up: David McCormick, Carrickfergus.
Runner-Up: Godfrey Robinson, Carrickfergus.
Best Scarecrow Competition (sponsored by Sunnybank Nursery and Garden Centre)
Winner: James Howells, Carrickfergus.
Runner-Up: Anna Clarke, Carrickfergus.
Runner-Up: Curtis and Lewis Patterson, Carrickfergus.
Tallest Sunflower Competition
Winner: Sophie Montgomery from Carrickfergus
Runner-Up: Jenny Mitchell from Carrickfergus
Runner-Up: Emily Turner from Carrickfergus
Best Kept Commercial Premises
Winner: Beauty Care 2000 from Whitehead
Runner-Up: Hunter Campbell from Carrickfergus
Runner-Up: The Cutting Station from Whitehead
Best Kept Pub or Hotel
Winner: Joymount Arms from Carrickfergus
Runner-Up: Brewers Fayre from Carrickfergus
Runner-Up: Pa Pa Browns from Carrickfergus
Best Floral Display by Traders in a Street or Centre
Winner: Carrickfergus Town Centre Display (Carrickfergus Chamber of Commerce)
Runner-Up: DeCourcy Centre at Carrickfergus
Runner-Up: The Courtyard at Carrickfergus
Children’s Painting Competition 15 and under
Winner: Gemma Martin from Greenisland (view painting)
Runner-Up: Anna Gorrod from Carrickfergus (view painting)
Runner-Up: Lauren Finlay from Carrickfergus (view painting)
Children’s Painting Competition 10 and under
Winner: Meghan Reid from Carrickfergus (view painting)
Runner-Up: Matthew Logan from Carrickfergus (view painting)
Runner-Up: Jade Halliday from Carrickfergus (view painting)
Children’s Poetry Competition
Winner: Emma Baird from Carrickfergus
Runner-Up: Peter Mitchell from Carrickfergus
Runner-Up: Noel Hartley from Greenisland
The Carrickfergus in Bloom Community Competitions with a prize fund of up to £1200 are organised by Carrickfergus Borough Council. Everyone who lives or works in the Borough has the chance to think about their local environment and how attractive flowers, plants and gardens can enhance it.By actively supporting this competition you will not only make your garden or business more attractive but also assist Carrickfergus’s entry to the Translink Ulster in Bloom Competition and the Britain in Bloom Competition.
Judging Criteria for General Categories
1) Design and general effect
2) Plant variety and diversity
3) Cleanliness and neatness (presentation)
4) Quality of plant growth and produce (husbandry)
5) Special features (e.g. wildlife area, pool etc)
6) Plants in bloom
Main Carrickfergus in Bloom Competition rules apply (see details).
