BRIGG 'SHRINKING VIOLET' STAGING OWN DISPLAY

Our town will be seeing many colourful flower displays in the coming months, thanks to the efforts of the Brigg in Bloom group, Brigg Town Council and the North Lincolnshire authority. But some Brigg residents are also working off their own bats, to use a cricketing phrase.
An example is the 'growing' display of potted plants pictured here on School Court - a walkway many people use to get between the Old Courts Road car park and Wrawby Street's shops and other businesses.
The person responsible for the display is something of a 'shrinking violet' and has declined our requests to be photographed alongside the plants, some of which he has provided himself while others have been donated by local retailers who declared them surplus to requirements. Nor does he want his name revealing.
Some Brigg business premises will be displaying hanging baskets of flowers on their frontages - arrangements being in hand to water them periodically, though this will be unnecessary in the short term if the heavy showers experienced of late continue to prevail.
Coronavirus emergency lockdown led to the cancellation of the 2020 best-kept gardens and allotments competition organised by Brigg Town Council, but this year the long-established event has been reinstated. It is open to local residents and there are various categories.
Further details will be forthcoming during the authority's next monthly meeting, to be held tomorrow night (Tuesday, May 25) together with an update on Brigg in Bloom and perhaps another about establishing new allotment plots on part of the park near South View Avenue.