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Hayes Garden World

Thanks to Hayes Garden world for their support. Hayes Garden World are a huge garden centre in Ambleside – their website sells garden benches, Barbeques, chimineas, teak garden furniture and even some dining room furniture.

Please take the time to visit our sponsor as their kind support enables us to achieve a great deal as a group.

Small Garden Zone

Blogger James is a self-employed artist based in South West Scotland and is the latest donor to our plant fund. His blog Small Garden Zone not only documents his attempts to get the most out of a small space but is an interesting garden diary with a particular emphasis on growing fruit, veggies and herbs. Small Garden Zone has only been online for a few months but is already promising to be a valuable resource for anyone growing in a real, less than ideal garden with all the challenges that entails. You’ll also find links to garden supplies used and recommended by James. The blog really is worth a look for anyone interested in real gardening in an authentic setting.

Thanks again to James for his kind donation.

Exotic Flowers Direct

Exotic Flowers Direct have very kindly made a much needed donation to our plant fund. Exotic flowers are perfect for impressing that special person. Their beautiful range of tropical flowers combine brilliant colors with striking shapes to create breathtaking and unforgettable presentations.

Once again a massive thanks to Exotic Flowers Direct for their kind support.

Hayes Garden World

The good people at Hayes Garden World have very kindly made a donation to our plant fund. Hayes Garden World is a huge garden centre in Ambleside selling everything you can think of related to gardening including garden furniture, garden benches, barbeques, chimineas, bird feeders, plants and lots more including all the gardening tools you’ll need in your guerrilla gardening kit.

Once again a massive thanks to Hayes for their kind donation.

Townhead 29th January – First dig of 2011

Hello all,

Hope everyone had a good new year. We’ll be meeting at our Townead site to tidy up and get it ready for

spring on Saturday 29th Jan at 11:30.

If you’ve not been along before the site is just outside St Mungos Primary school on the lane that connects

Stirling Rd and Parson Street;

MAP LINK

Hope to see you all on saturday.

Cheers

Remember all them bulbs You planted?

Late last year we had our 10,000 bulb challenge. Earlier in spring we had hundreds of daffodils, snowdrops and crocus flowering away. Right now, it is the turn of the Tulips to flower. It is a wonderful splash of colour. A big thank you again if you were involved in any way with the bulb planting.

3rd march – Urgent Help Wanted (Townhead site)

We will also be meeting up in the evening on 3rd March at the same place, probably between about 5:30 and 6pm for the filmingof a BBC programme. To make the most of this opportunity we really need a big turnout and if you can spare the time to help us out we’d be very grateful. Media can be very helpful in attracting funding and willing volunteers -both of which we’re desperately short of, so it would be beneficial to the group as a whole if we make a success of this.

If you’d like to attend on either or ideally both days can you please respond to this message or email so that we have an idea of numbers. If you haven’t attended before you’d be more than welcome on either day.

A Big Push to End the Year on a High!

Let’s start off with a massive thank-you to all who braved the hellish weather at the weekend to get some more bulbs planted. Despite the low turnout and my abduction by the press an impressive amount of work was done with hundreds more bulbs planted.

Next week we’ll be back to our usual time of 11:30am up at Townhead and as ever there’s loads to do. This week should see the winter aconites and the last of the grape hyacinths planted. In addition I’ve been given a bag of daffodils and post permitting should have 1000 snowdrops, 50 wood anemone and 100 English Bluebells to add to the display.

We’ve done well to raise the funds we have but sadly we’re still short of our 10,000 target by some way. The council were in touch recently and made positive noises about helping us out with some tulips and daffodils which should hopefully see us reach our individual targets on those flowers. However we still urgently require 900 English Bluebells, 950 Wood Anemone and 300 Snakeshead Fritallaries. If the council let us down then we’re also still short by 600 mixed daffodils and 900 tulips. A total shortfall of around 3650 bulbs.

If you would like to donate to our funds then please do so via paypal. If you’d prefer to bring some bulbs along then we’ll be accepting donations of bulbs at Townhead if you’d like to come along and drop them off. We’ve only got until 31st December to meet our target and have done well despite some recent setbacks. It would be a shame to come this far and fall short so if you have any spare cash or bulbs we really would be very grateful for your donations.

We’ll be up at Townhead on Saturday 21st Nov at 11:30am, Saturday 28th November at 11:30am, December 5th 11:30am, December 12th 11:30am, December 19th 11:30am and Wednesday 30th December at 12pm. If you’d like to come along to any of these events with some bulbs of the still needed varieties, some gloves and trowel or bulb planter you’ll be more than welcome.