More than 3000 tulips and daffodils are a taste of what's to come in Rhuddlan this year.

Preparation is already underway for this year's Wales in Bloom competition in a bid to clinch the town's sixth consecutive win in the competition’s It’s Your Neighbourhood awards.

Volunteers from the Rhuddlan Environment Group and the Co Op staff and management team planted over 3000 Carlton Red and White tulip bulbs at the end of October 2017 along the verges on Rhyl Road.

Brenda Taylor, chair of the The Rhuddlan Environment Group, said: "We are so pleased with the results, so many of our residents have stopped me personally to thank us for our hard work and how nice and bright the town looked.

"We keep planting because we know it's the right thing to do, it lifts one's spirits after a long winter when you see the lovely spring flower beds blooming."

Joining the tulips are snowdrops and daffodil beds planted by volunteers from the Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Cubs and Beavers groups on the verges of Rhyl Rd, New Road, Princess Road, Station Road, by the KFC roundabout.

However, there is still plenty of work to be done, with enhancing the Pentre Lane corner next on the project list, and calls for volunteers on Saturday, May 5 at 9.30 am to help clear along the verges of the cycle path from Rhuddlan to Rhyl.