Celebration Garden - Queens Park - Loughborough, Leicestershire - Olympic Memorabilia on Waymarking.com

There are five little displays, representing the five Olympic rings (originally said to represent the colours present in all the flags of the participating nations, and now also representing the five continents): If you're visiting in summer, it's an exciting display to experience.
There is an information board nearby that explains in more detail the features of the garden.

"Inspired by the 2012 Games, the spectacular garden, sponsored by Serco, Charnwood Borough Council’s environmental services partner, is located near the children’s play area. It has been designed to welcome visitors into the landscape with stepping stones and paths weaving through the flower beds.

The flower beds are home to unique sculptures and the garden was officially opened by Councillor Diane Wise, the Mayor of Charnwood, with the ceremony also including a recital at the Queen’s Park Carillon.

Bursting with colour, the garden aims to impress for Loughborough In Bloom and to be a lasting legacy for Loughborough and visitors to the park.

The concept and design were created by local firm, The Cloud Factory, and the landscape work delivered by Serco and the council’s Green Spaces team.

Children from nine Leicestershire schools have also put their little green fingers to work and created flowery ‘grow men’ – figures made from a soil-filled sack planted with flowers and fashioned into little people – which now sit in each of the flower beds.

The schools involved were Wymeswold Primary; Woolden Hill Primary, Anstey; Seagrave Village Primary; Thorpe Acre Primary, Loughborough; St Mary's Catholic Primary, Loughborough; St Bartholomew's CofE Primary, Quorn; Holywell Primary, Loughborough; Hathern CofE Primary and St Botolph's, Shepshed."

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