Helping to beautify kenmore
Kenmore in Bloom takes place June 15 - July 13, 2025.
Kenmore in Bloom aims to boost gardening and keep Kenmore looking beautiful! We appreciate and celebrate the hard work that goes into creating attractive streets with good curb appeal. Well-kept front yards and storefronts have a positive impact on the whole community, so as a way of saying thanks, each "Bloomed" garden gets a lawn sign to show off their achievement and inspire others.
Vote for your favorite front garden!You can now vote to have your favorite Kenmore front garden receive a delightful prize from the Made for Good shop! You can vote for a neighbor, yourself, or just a garden that you think looks great. Voting takes place during Kenmore in Bloom. Only one vote per person. There will be three winners who will be notified by email or snail mail the week after Blooming ends.
Bloom Scouts out & AboutKeep an eye out for our Bloom Scouts! They will be out and about, looking at each front garden in Kenmore starting June 15th and ending July 13th. Bloom Scouts will be wearing a Kenmore in Bloom name tag. Please remember that we only have a limited number of Blooms to award each year.
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What is Kenmore in Bloom?
Kenmore in Bloom is a way to encourage everyone in Kenmore, residences, businesses, churches, and organizations, to make the front of their property look good with gardens, plants, flowers, and trees. This benefits our community in several ways:
- We reap the health benefits of gardening -this is a whole person activity, good for the body, mind, and spirit.
- We can build friendships and connect to our neighbors and others interested in adding plants to their surroundings by sharing plants and gardening tips, etc.
- By beautifying our own space, we encourage others around us to do the same. Since we started Kenmore in Bloom, there has been a wave of beautification that grows each year. A neighbor puts effort into their front garden and that inspires their next door neighbor to do the same, and that inspires the neighbor across the street, and before you know it, the whole block is looking lush and lovely!
- Having an attractive and well-kept neighborhood raises property values.
- It's beneficial to pollinators of all kinds, giving them habitat and food - this in turn benefits the earth in many ways.
How is it organized?We divide the Village of Kenmore into 13 zones for Kenmore in Bloom; each of these 13 zones are assigned volunteer Bloom Scouts to decide who will receive a Bloom Award. Bloom Scouts are people who sign up to receive training, then go out to the zone they have been assigned and carefully, after looking at the zone several times, decide what places they will choose to receive a Bloom Award. Anyone can sign up to be a Bloom Scout. A Bloom Scout cannot Bloom the zone where they live and they cannot have the same zone to Bloom two years in a row. Bloom Scout training instructs our Scouts on what we look for in gardens that are eligible to receive an Award. There are a limited number of Bloom Awards to give each year, for 2024 we have 40 Awards for each zone. This means that there will always be some deserving gardens that don't get picked to receive a Bloom Award. But because our Bloom Scouts change annually in each zone, every place has a new chance to be Bloomed.
How does my place get bloomed?Once our Bloom Scouts receive their training, they then receive a packet of materials they will use for making their Awards. They are looking for places that have these characteristics:
Remember that the Bloom Awards are given for the FRONT GARDEN only. Gardens that have the following characteristics will not receive a Bloom Award.
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Bloom Scouts Mary & Ruthie
“It’s an honor and delight to have had my garden Bloomed. Thank you for recognizing the power of beautiful gardens. They heal and soothe those who pass by. Gardeners will almost always tell you that gardening is a labor of love, and they make their caretakers stay fit and mentally healthy! Bless you for your commitment to Kenmore.” -Jeanne Bowman | ||||
Check out the photos below of gardens that have received Bloom Awards in the past.
