EVERYTHING'S come up roses for a group of council gardeners who won a prize in a national flower show.
Chester-le-Street District Council was one of 22 local authorities taking part in the Royal Horticultural Show's National Flowerbed Competition at Tatton Park in Cheshire.
And eight months of painstaking work paid off for the team when they won a silver medal for the second consecutive year.
Work on the flowerbed started in November and the colourful creation of an arching St Cuthbert's cross certainly caught the eye.
After the show finished last weekend, the gardeners carefully transported their flowerbed back to Chester-le-Street, where it has now been placed behind the Civic Centre.
Graham Cozens, head of the Civic Pride project, said: "It was quite a challenge. We were competing against bigger councils like the London boroughs, who have a lot more money to throw at these things.
"We had two apprentices working on it, so it's nice for them to have this sort of achievement."
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