The spring flowers in Moretonhampstead gardens Sutton Mead and Mardon must have loved the driest winter for decades.
The colours of the apple blossom, wisteria, rhododendrons and azaleas have never looked better. Both of these four acre gardens will be open in aid of The National Garden Scheme on Friday, Saturday and Sunday 19, 20, 21 May - 2pm-6pm.
There will be a sale of plants raised in the gardens and delicious homemade teas. Parking is available at both gardens and for anyone wishing to combine their visit with a walk on the moor, dogs on leads are welcome.
Volunteers from Sidmouth Garden Centre , picked up their trowels last Wednesday (2 November) and headed to the Old Boat Park to complete their makeover of the entrance beds.
Together with local landscape gardener Mike Wale of MG Wale Landscapes Ltd, the team transformed the overgrown and unloved beds into sensory garden areas befitting the town’s floral heritage. Wyevale Garden Centres provided plants, equipment, volunteers and the expertise of a team from the centre to work to turn the area into a peaceful and stimulating outdoor space to compliment the work the Sid Valley Memory...
Devon Local Nature Partnership is aiming to Get Devon Buzzing this month (July) with a month of 'pollinator' themed events across the county.
The first ever Devon Pollinators' Month aims to raise awareness of our bees, butterflies and other insects, many of which are in serious decline.
Events have been organized by a wide range of partners including local farmers, East Devon District Council, Devon Wildlife Trust, National Trust, FWAG SW, Paignton Zoo, Dartmoor Meadows Project and Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust.
Over the weekend of the 25th and 26th June there is a treat in store for garden lovers. As part of the Open Gardens charity fundraiser for Hospiscare,13 Budleigh Salterton residents have got together for an Open Gardens extravaganza!
For this weekend only, you can pay £7 for a weekend pass which will allow you entry to all 13 gardens on both Saturday and Sunday. Or you can pay per visit, for only £2.50.
You will enjoy a wide variety of flora and fauna with gardens like Roundhill, created in 1929 by a retired rubber planter. Roundhill has eccentric features like a huge...
Over the coming weeks, Sidmouth, a Wyevale Garden Centre, will be giving something back to the local community by transforming the outdoor space of a Sidmouth organisation, as voted by the public. Until Sunday 19th June, visitors to the centre will be able to vote for their favourite nominee by placing a plant bulb – available at the tills - in the box of their choice. The shortlist of nominees is as follows: Sidmouth in Bloom – the Old Boat Park Sidmouth in Bloom is a voluntary body working within the local community that aims to continue the town’s floral heritage. If voted the winner,...
A project to grow and sell fruit and vegetables has taken root at Exeter Deaf Academy thanks to the generosity of Exeter City Football Club.
In May, Exeter City donated 40 tonnes of topsoil following the club’s pitch renovations at St James’ Park.
The football club’s topsoil is now being recycled and put to horticultural use in Exeter Deaf Academy’s garden nursery for their new ‘Grow Make Sell’ social enterprise. The enterprise aims to provide work related learning and experience for the Academy’s Deaf students.
Exeter City Football Club Estates Manager, Clive Pring...
Fancy a peek around some private gardens in Exeter’s leafy St Leonards? Then pop along to see six gardens in Matford Avenue, Matford Road, Leighdene Close and St Leonards Road, five of which are opening for the first time.
The keen gardeners, who are all good friends, are taking part in Exeter Hospiscare’s Open Gardens on Sunday May 22 from 2pm-5pm. Admission is by donation.
“Come and take a look around, this is a friendly, welcoming neighbourhood,” said Minna Egan, one of the garden owners.
“We have neighbourhood parties at Christmas and in the summer, so we all...
Fancy a peek around some private gardens in Exeter’s leafy St Leonards? Then pop along to see six gardens in Matford Avenue, Matford Road, Leighdene Close and St Leonards Road, five of which are opening for the first time.
The keen gardeners, who are all good friends, are taking part in Exeter Hospiscare’s Open Gardens on Sunday May 22 from 2pm-5pm. Admission is by donation.
“Come and take a look around, this is a friendly, welcoming neighbourhood,” said Minna Egan, one of the garden owners.
“We have neighbourhood parties at Christmas and in the summer, so we all...
Wyevale Garden Centres is warning the gardeners of Britain to prepare for an increase of supersized slugs this spring, thanks to our unseasonably mild winter.
Due to a change in recent weather patterns and a lack of hard frost, our slug population is booming. Unlike snails, slugs are active above 5°c and Britain’s mild winter means they’ve been awake for a longer season than usual and therefore able to reproduce all winter – at a much faster rate than usual – the result of which is a population explosion. As these sleepless slugs are laying between 20 and 100 eggs a time, one cubic...
Britain is ‘under attack’ from swarms of winged creatures.
Large numbers of airborne common black garden ants have been spotted everywhere this summer and now; thousands of wasps are also set to come out in record numbers for the next few weeks.
Following a huge uplift in sales of insect repellents, Wyevale Garden Centres is forecasting September to be an insect battleground for UK gardens. Britain’s summer of insect invasion has paved the way for a 300 per cent year on year rise in sales of Ant control products. Plus, wasp control products peaked last week with an increase...
