CLIENTS of Liphook Day Centre came to the aid of Liphook in Bloom by providing brightly coloured butterflies as an additional attraction to the team’s garden at the village postal sorting office in Portsmouth Road.

Team chairman Irene Ellis said: “It is lovely to include different aspects of the community in our gardening plans.

“The butterflies were created during the art and craft periods in the day centre programme and are very appropriate to the style of planting in this particular garden.

“They are highly visible and make a lovely display as they sway happily to and fro in the breeze.”

This year saw an additional wild flower garden created around the village green to extend the area of the previous two gardens created in 2015, together with a shrub planted garden also on the perimeter of the green.

Although Liphook in Bloom is the lynchpin bringing the village’s flowers to fruition, they are keen to acknowledge it is the help which comes from the whole community that enables them to fulfil their plans. Watering is a major necessity throughout the summer months and reservoirs in the hanging baskets and containers are filled by teams twice a week.

So far this year the team has used 1,800 litres of recycled water. Much of this is collected from a roof-top rain water storage system with additional support courtesy of The Foley Manor Estate.

The In Bloom team has welcomed several new members during 2016 who are settling into their positions of office and the annual routine. But more volunteers are always welcome especially for monthly weeding and maintenance and for projects such as taking out bulbs and replanting for the new season.

To learn more, visit iphookinbloom.co.uk or call Irene on 01428 723823.