Ian Cawley, Author at Babbacombe Bay Bloomers

RHS South West in Bloom Awards 2025

Babbacombe Bay retain the gold award and win the Portman Cup. The first time it has been won by any of the Torbay towns.

Babbacombe Bay Bloomers It’s Your Neighbourhood Awards:

Rose Garden Babbacombe – Level 5 Outstanding

St Marychurch Precinct and Foxlands Walk – Level 5 Outstanding

Millennium Copse St Marychurch – Level 4 Thriving

Babbacombe Downs Buglife Bed– Level 3 Advancing

Abbey School Corner St Marychurch– Level 3 Advancing

Area Neighbourhood Awards:

Lychgate Cottages St Marychurch Fore Street – Level 5 Outstanding

Tessier Gardens Friends Group – Level 5 Outstanding

The St Marychurch Precinct Centre – Level 3 Advancing

Babbacombe – Reclaim Our Lanes – Level 3 Advancing

Gold Business and Tourism awards:

The Babbacombe Inn

The Model Village

The Cary Arms and Spa

Special Awards and thank yous

Sandi Jackson at Lychgate Cottages received the Special Award Dedication to Community Gardening

Jo Sharlott and the Babbacombe Bay Bloomers team were thanked for the table decorations

Babbacombe Bay was awarded Gold in the Champions of Champions for St Marychurch and Babbacombe.

It’s Your Neighbourhood Awards:

Millennium Copse – Level 5 Outstanding

Rose Garden – Level 5 Outstanding

St Marychurch Precinct and Foxlands Walk – Level 5 Outstanding

Babbacombe Downs Buglife Bed– Level 5 Outstanding

Chilcote Memorial Corner– Level 5 Outstanding

Area Neighbourhood Awards:

Tessier Gardens Friends Group – Level 5 Outstanding

The Precinct Centre – Level 4 Thriving

St Marychurch Yarn Fairies 3rd in Art in the Landscape

Gold Business and Tourism awards:

The Babbacombe Inn

The Model Village

The Cary Arms and Spa

The Model Village also received the South West in Bloom Landscape cup.

Babbacombe Bay win the Sargent Cup in the 2023 awards, bringing the cup back to Torbay after 52 years.

Babbacombe Bay was presented with a Gold Award in the Sargent Cup and also the cup

It’s Your Neighbourhood Awards:

Millennium Copse – Level 5 Outstanding

Rose Garden – Level 5 Outstanding

St Marychurch Precinct and Foxlands Walk – Level 5 Outstanding

Babbacombe Downs Buglife Bed– Level 5 Outstanding

Chilcote Memorial Corner– Level 5 Outstanding

Area Neighbourhood Awards:

The Precinct Centre – Level 5 Outstanding

Petit Plot Community Garden – Level 5 Outstanding

Tessier Gardens Friends Group – Level 4 Thriving

Abbey School -Level 4 Thriving

Gold Business and Tourism awards go to:

The Babbacombe Inn

The Model Village

The Cary Arms and Spa

Special awards were presented to Shirley Holbrook and Ian Cawley

St Marychurch does it first.

The Bloomers organised the bunting to be up for the Coronation so a big thank you to Steve Holdup and to Andrew Uglow of Pyramid Torbay Photography for the photo.

Great British Spring Clean 2023

Babbacombe Bay Bloomers spent a morning litter picking the verges of the St Marychurch Bypass, the Hampton grassland and around the shopping Precinct area, helping to support the Keep Britain Tidy ‘Great British Spring Litter Pick’ 2023.

Planter News

We give a fond farewell to a number of the wooden planters that have served us well over many years.

Hello to two very heavy concrete planters, that match our existing ones have been donated by the Precinct Centre.

Welcome to our new Self Watering Planters paid for by the Lottery Community Fund. The benefits are: Made from recycled plastic they are hard-wearing, long lasting and low maintenance, also with an Eco-friendly self-watering reservoir they save time, money and water waste.