Judges for Ramsey Town Commissioners’ children’s bulb-growing challenge were faced with some difficult decisions when they visited Bunscoill Rhumsaa to select this year’s winning entries.

Now in its 35th year the competition sees the Commissioners provide the town’s primary school with daffodil bulbs, planting compost, a pot and growing instructions. The bulbs are grown by the pupils at home then brought to school for judging. Judges this year were the Commission’s head gardener Bobby Cunningham, local horticulturalist Pat Goodway and Commissioner Sylvia Beattie.

Mrs Beattie said: ‘The school hall was ablaze with colour, such was the outstanding quality of entries. Clearly the children had taken great care in nurturing their bulbs as well as in decorating their pots so our work as judges was quite a task…albeit a very enjoyable one.

‘The competition is one of the events all of us at Ramsey Town Commissioners - members and staff alike – have a great affection for and are proud to have been supporting for so many years.’

Photo - Daffodil judging at Bunscoill Rhumsaa: Ramsey Town Commissioners’ head gardener Bobby Cunningham, Commissioner Sylvia Beattie and local horticulturalist Pat Goodway. Picture Andrew Barton.