General Features

If you're travelling into Birmingham keep an eye out for the cheese loving inventor and his faithful hound.

Poised on a motorbike and side carriage on Great Charles Street, Wallace and Gromit are welcoming anyone coming into the city via the Queensway tunnel.

The environmentally friendly contest, run by the Royal Horticultural Society, encourages local communities to make positive improvements to their landscapes by all manner of floral features.

• Manta Ray – Brindleyplace by National Sea Life Centre
• Scout's Centenary Emblem in carpet bedding – Centenary Square
• The Compost Heap – Paradise Gardens
• Spitfire – Victoria Square
• The Angels – Birmingham Cathedral
• Noah's Ark – St Paul's Churchyard
• The Lion in carpet bedding – St Paul's Square

For more information on the Britain in Bloom competition, visit www.rhs.org.uk/britaininbloom