{"id":1464,"date":"2023-07-28T14:01:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T13:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstport.co.uk\/firstport-development-awarded-2nd-place-in-gardening-competition\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T14:01:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T13:01:31","slug":"firstport-development-awarded-2nd-place-in-gardening-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstport.co.uk\/retirement-living\/firstport-development-awarded-2nd-place-in-gardening-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"FirstPort retirement development awarded 2nd place in local gardening competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A FirstPort retirement development has secured second place in this year\u2019s Runnymede in Bloom gardening competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Onslow Mews \u2013 an independent-living retirement development in Surrey \u2013 was awarded second place in the Best Communal Garden category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Runnymede in Bloom is an annual competition set up by Runnymede Borough Council to celebrate impressive communal and residential gardens across the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Caroline Turner, the FirstPort Development Manager at Onslow Mews, explained:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Runnymede in Bloom competition is a brilliant community event to take part in and we are absolutely thrilled to have been awarded second place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cThe gardens at Onslow Mews are a place for residents to relax and enjoy the outdoors and our gardeners and green-fingered residents work hard to keep them looking beautiful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Mayor of Runnymede Borough Council visited the gardens in July as part of the judging process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A selection of residents will be attending an awards ceremony at the local garden centre later this month.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A FirstPort retirement development has secured second place in this year\u2019s Runnymede in Bloom gardening competition. Onslow Mews \u2013 an independent-living retirement development in Surrey \u2013 was awarded second place in the Best Communal Garden category. Runnymede in Bloom is an annual competition set up by Runnymede Borough Council to celebrate impressive communal and residential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-residents","category-retirement-living"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstport.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstport.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstport.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstport.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstport.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstport.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstport.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstport.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstport.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstport.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}