32 Spring 2010 Cornish Gardener

Reader offer

THE Chilean garden at Plant World

Free seeds and a day out for two

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lant World Gardens at Newton Abbot is offering Cornish Gardener

readers the chance to send for free tomato seeds, a season ticket for two to the gardens (worth £20) and a catalogue – all for the price of three first class stamps. Plant World consists of four acres of landscaped hilltop gardens representing each of the five continents, with a mature cottage garden and also a Mediterranean garden, and has been called ‘Devon’s little outdoor Eden’. Located between Torquay and Newton Abbot in beautiful South Devon, it offers an outstanding collection of rare and exotic flowers, trees and shrubs from around the world, many of which can be bought in the adjacent rare plant nursery.

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stablished in 1985, Plant World is the culmination of a plantsman’s vision

holding a lifetime’s collection, and has been featured on the BBC’s Gardeners’ World, ITV’s Gardens For All and Channel 4’s Bloom. Plant World has a reputation for producing unusual flowers and vegetables and they are now releasing the amazing – and almost disease- and blight-resistant – tomato, ‘Tommy Toe’. This high-

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yielding heirloom tomato from the Ozark Mountains of America produces small to medium, apricot-sized, soft sweet fruits. In 1993, The Australian Diggers Seed Company had a tomato taste test when the official tasters included prominent chefs and gardening experts, who all turned up at Dromana, Victoria. Out of all the tomatoes tasted (more than 100), Tommy Toe came up number one. This is the tomato that you eat as you’re walking through the garden and is the ideal choice for cooler growing regions.

ornish Gardener readers can claim two free season tickets to

Plant World Gardens along with a packet of seeds of the amazing tomato ‘Tommy Toe’ (worth £1.65), and also their latest flower and vegetable seed catalogue.

Simply send three first class stamps to: Cornish Gardener Free Seed and Ticket Offer, Plant World, St Marychurch Road, Newton Abbot TQ12 4SE.

Plant World is open from 9.30am-5pm seven days a week from April to September inclusive. Telephone 01803 872939 for more details.

READERS will receive a packet of Tommy Toe tomato seeds which are virtually blight and disease resistant

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