Nominations open for Lewes in Bloom Beauty Spot Award
The Lewes in Bloom Beauty Spot Award successfully launched last year and is open for nominations now. Designed to honor beauty throughout the greater Lewes community, the award also serves to thank gardeners for their efforts to enhance beauty on their properties. A Beauty Spot winner can be based on overall landscape, planted beds, containers, front door, patios, or even a beautiful corner.
Awardees receive the Beauty Spot Award sign to display in their yard for a month; an award certificate; a $25 gift certificate from Wharton's Garden Center; acknowledgement in the Lewes in Bloom newsletter, website and Facebook page; and coverage in the Cape Gazette.
All residential properties or spots in the greater Lewes 19958 ZIP code are eligible to participate. Lewes in Bloom membership is not necessary. Residents can nominate their own property, and the general public can also nominate a residential property that catches their eye. Members of Lewes in Bloom's board of advisors and Beauty Spot selection committee are not eligible. Candidate residences can be either owner or professionally designed and planted, but must be owner-maintained. To submit nominations, email lewesinbloomde@gmail.com.
The award was created on the recommendation of America in Bloom Champions Category Selection Committee feedback. In September 2015, during the America in Bloom Symposium in Holland, Mich., Lewes was named the winner of the Champions Category for small towns. Judy Hanson, Lewes in Bloom co-chair, then challenged the club's horticulture committee to research how to establish a Beauty Spot program for Lewes. Hanson said, "The Beauty Spot program is a great example of how LIB members collaborate to enrich the city we love and care about." Nancy Phillips, co-chair, said, "This program provides opportunities for Lewes residents to be recognized for their efforts in gardening." The Beauty Spot Award committee is led by members Betsy Hansot, Linda McDonald, Ann-Marie Rooney, Lois Sechehay and Dolores Wardell.
For nomination forms, go to www.lewesinbloom.org.
