in bloom

Because isn’t that what beauty is, in all of its prismatic totality — hard to kill, always in bloom?

Helen Marshall, 71, is one of the Lord Street in Bloom garden volunteers who have been looking after the floral tributes.

Mr Clarke said the raised bed was planted to "brighten things up" as part of the Britain in Bloom competition.

“I wanted to have a bold effect when things were in bloom,” she says of the homeowners’ request for a colorful landscape.

Pennes designed the garden so that something is always in bloom regardless of the season.