The island achieved Gold Level and was awarded the Lady Dorey Trophy which is given to the overall competition winners.

Sark Community Blooms also won the Ossie Falla Community Award for outstanding contribution to a community entry while Stocks Hotel’s permaculture garden won the Horticultural Excellence Trophy with Head Gardener James Harrison given a Special Commendation.

Among these honours, winning the Lady Dorey Trophy at Gold Level means that Sark will represent the Bailiwick of Guernsey in the R.H.S. Britain in Bloom competition next year.

That won the island praise from the Seigneur, Christopher Beaumont, who said the island “has never looked better.”

“I am delighted that Sark has done so well in the Floral Guernsey competition,” he said. “This year the community surpassed itself with a variety of projects that brought people together, improved the environment and made the island blossom with colour and scent. Sark has never looked better and we should be proud that the community pulls together to make it happen.”

The Annual Awards Presentation and Dinner was held at Les Cotils on 6 September 2018, with Judges Alan Dorey and Rae Beckwith handing out the accolades.

Among the winners were the Saints Bay Tower team, 1st Guernsey Scouts, Bruce Russell, The Last Post Public House and La Houguette School.

The full list of winners is below:

  • DH & ON Falla trophy for best Douzaine Room: St Martins, Gold Award Heritage Award: Saints Bay Tower team, St Martins
  • Best Floral Displays: St Peter Port, St Julian’s Roundabout
  • Best Local Environment: Herm
  • Horticultural Excellence: Stock’s Hotel, Sark
  • Ossie Falla Award for an outstanding contribution to the community: Team Sark Young People’s Award: 1st Guernsey Scouts
  • Norma Ozanne Schools Award: La Houguette School
  • Tourism Award: Bruce Russell, St Saviours
  • Conservation and Wildlife Award: The Brothers’ Cemetery, St Peter Port Theme Award: Mirus Battery, St Peters
  • Best New Project: GSPCA pond and wildlife area
  • Joc Watts Trophy: Andrew Pouteaux

The judges also gave commendation awards to James Harrison, Stocks Hotel; John and Marilyn Garnham, St Martins; Garry Murchie, Nigel Smith and Kevin Bourgaize, Saints Bay Tower; Brett Moore, Herm; Phil de Jersey, St Peter Port, Rosie Henderson, St Peter Port, The Last Post Public House and Nigel Clarke.

Sark won a Gold medal in the Community Competition with St Saviours receiving a Silver Gilt.

Sark won the Lady Dorey Trophy and the right to represent the Bailiwick in the Britain in Bloom National Competition, 2019.

Forest was Guernsey’s representative for the 2018 Britain in Bloom competition, with the results to be revealed in Belfast next month.