Andrew Wain Named As 2020 Allett Creative Stripes Champion

It's been a tough year for everyone going through the coronavirus pandemic but homeowners all around the world have had a great excuse to get in their garden to work on their Allett Creative Lawn Stripes competition entries. The competition is run annually with all entries welcome, regardless of how big or small your lawn is. We encourage homeowners to use their lawns to design the most creative, eye catching designs that truly shows off the craftsmanship and dedication that goes into grass maintenance. The quintessentially British striped lawn is idealised across the world and in celebration of this we opened the competition internationally.The first Allett mower was launched in 1965 and our machines are synonymous with creating stripes on lawns and sports grounds around the world. Spending time in the garden can be great for your mental health and what better way is there to relax than mowing your lawn. Sales of Allett homeowner products in 2020 has been extremely successful despite the current global situation- so thank-you! Striped lawns used to be the preserve of the British garden, but now keen gardeners from around the globe compete each year for this coveted green award. The standard of this year's entries has again been incredible and keeps on getting better year after year. This year's competition saw entries come in from USA, Wales, England, Denmark, Australia, Belgium, France, Sweden, Netherlands, Scotland and Ireland - a truly global set of entries! This year's judge was Edgbaston Cricket Ground's very own Head Groundsman Gary Barwell. Allett are proud partners with Edgbaston and felt Gary's expertise was perfect for the role of this year's judge. An internal vote was done at Allett with the top 6 entries being forwarded to Gary to pick his overall winner. Creativity is the key to this competition as well as using current themes to design patterns around and you will see from the top 6 below how creative they really are.

 

THE TOP 6 ENTRIES ARE BELOW

2nd Place this year went to Edward Aitken from Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. Edward's entry last year unfortunately got lost in the email systems and we didn't receive it. His entry is incredible and has clearly been well designed ahead of creation. It looks like alot of patience, time and effort was involved. Gary's comments ''This is truly outstanding. The work, time and effort that has gone into this is incredible''

2020 ALLETT CREATIVE LAWN STRIPES COMPETITION CHAMPION- ANDREW WAIN

This year we have been forever grateful for the NHS and this year's winning entry is a lovely tribute to them. Andew Wain (Head Gardener of Euridge Manor) has placed high in our stripes competition for the last few years and this year has gone one better! Euridge Manor is a private estate in Chippenham, UK. The estate regularly holds weddings and has 40 booked in for next year. Andrew has faced the battles of having wedding guests walking over his entries in previous years and marquees on the lawn. We feel this entry reflects the theme of the year with the coronavirus pandemic and the different patterns Andrew has made use of no matter which way you look at the design is incredible. Well done! Andrew Wain's quote This was my fourth year entering the creative stripes competition. Having come second place in my first year of entering, I was determined to keep going and win that much coveted FIRST PLACE. However, since then the property where I work has become a wedding venue. Each year I found it harder and harder to work around the wear and tear of weddings on the lawn and capture that perfect picture of the pattern. This year however has been very different! Covid! I had originally planned to create a flower pattern on the lawn but as the pattern evolved, as did Covid. I felt that this was my opportunity of saying THANK YOU to all those in all departments of the NHS that have put themselves in harms way to look after us. It is also my way of saying thank you to all those in the NHS who have cared for relatives of mine who in the last few years and indeed weeks lost their battles with cancer. So that is where I came up with the idea of the butterfly. To carry the thank-you message. The Allett creative stripes competition has encouraged me to turn the lawn at Euridge Manor, into a piece of art. I encourage anyone to have a go, as it is great fun. And adds a whole new dimension of creativity to the garden. Andrew now becomes the proud owner of an Allett Liberty 43 battery powered cylinder mower alongside the ALLETT Complete Lawn Care System of six interchangeable cartridges consisting of an aerator, a scarifier, a lawn brush, a dethatcher, a verticutter and a 10 –blade cartridge together with two cartridge stands. He will also get to spend 'a day in the life of a groundsman' at Edgbaston alongside Gary and his team. We will hopefully be shooting a video with Andrew when we drop his prize off to hear his story. Gary's comments ''The standard was truly outstanding and the time and work that was put into these was on another level it was so difficult to decide but the winner showed craft flair knowledge and relevance'' ''The rise in international competitors in this competition is in line with the rise in demand our company has seen for our mowers from overseas lawn-fanatics” says Austin Jarrett, Managing Director at Allett Ltd. Allett recently won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise – International trade because of the increase in overseas demand and consequently our export sales. Keep an eye on our social media channels for information on next year's competition aswell as further posts on this year's entries. Thank-you to all that entered- We're sure that any of the TOP 6 could quite easily have won! Find our video with Andrew here