Towcester In Bloom

Photo collage of images of floral hanging baskets, planters and troughs on display throughout Towcester town centre with bright colourful rainbow of b

Town Centre Floral Displays

Towcester Town Council organises the town centre floral displays, from May to September, which include window baskets, hanging baskets, and troughs on the A5 bridge over Silverstone Brook and outside Brackley Road Cemetery. In 2025, the council also added three new 3-tier planters near the Saracen's Head and Brackley Road. The council also covers the cost of watering these and the Towcester Evening W.I. planters in Sponne Arcade.

A beautiful garden full of colourful blooms

Best Kept Garden Competition

The Town Council encourages green-fingered residents to enter Towcester's Best Kept Garden competition for a chance to win National Garden vouchers and feature in the Town Crier magazine.

The winner in 2025 is this beautiful garden in Greenview Drive, created by Marie and Jonny in lockdown and lovingly nurtured in the years since. Fans of roses in particular, this garden also features vegetables and salad leaves and fruit trees, as well as rainwater capture and a water trough of lilies and goldfish.

Bee Squared Project

Rosie's Bee Square	In Spring 2025, Towcester Town Council launched the Bee Squared Project. The number of bees and other insects has greatly declined over recent years. They need a huge amount of energy to fly from their home to fields where they collect nectar and pollinate plants in the process, frequently travelling several miles and needing regular fuel stops en-route. New developments have increased the flight paths for bees and other insects, thereby reducing the opportunities for pollination. “BEE SQUARED” is an exciting project, which was started by Hazlemere Parish Council, Buckinghamshire, in 2021.
Howard's Bee Square	Towcester Town Council is delighted to be trialling this initiative. The idea is to encourage members of our community to dedicate a one metre-squared area within their garden for the planting of wildflower seeds to support bees and other pollinators. Not only will this boost biodiversity, it also enhances and encourages more wildlife to your garden. If successful, we hope to repeat this project next year. Please join us in helping to create a thriving habitat for these vital insects. The optimum time for planting is in the spring and the Town Council gave out 1000 packets of wildflower seeds. For more information on how you can support wildlife in your area, please visit www.wildlifetrusts.org