Gold and category winners in RHS Britain in Bloom

We have been awarded RHS Britain in Bloom 2023 business improvement districts, town centres, city centres’ category winners and gold!

The town has been recognised, once again, for its floral brilliance, having been named category winners and won gold at the annual RHS Britain in Bloom floral awards, beating Harrogate BID, and Romford BID, London.

Following our huge success in the 2022 Northumbrian in Bloom awards, where South Park and the town centre scooped golds and Darlington was awarded best overall entry, we were invited to take park in the prestigious RHS Britain in Bloom awards.

Britain in Bloom judges visited the town in July and have recognised and rewarded the town for outstanding floral displays in the business improvement district, town centre and city centre categories, with a gold medal and crowned us category winners.

Our horticulture, parks, and town centre teams, along with volunteers, including friends of the parks groups, Darlington Cares, Street Champions, and residents and business owners worked together all year round, to make sure the town looked its best.

When the judges visited in July, our parks, town centre and open spaces all looked glorious, which helped us be crowned floral first and awarded gold!

Stephen Harker, leader of the council, said “We are absolutely delighted our town’s and villages’ floral displays have been once again recognised and rewarded in these prestigious, national awards. Our horticulture and park teams, together with friends of the park, volunteers, Street Champions, Darlington Cares, and of course businesses and residents work so hard all year round and rightly deserve the recognition of such fantastic collaborative work

“It’s only a few weeks ago that we scooped two gold medals in this year’s regional Northumbria in Bloom floral awards, and I really can’t thank everyone involved enough for all their hard work and dedication”.