Gardener’s Cuttings
National Garden Show hosts three great days
The Royal Bath & West Showground is the venue for another high profile event when it hosts the National Gardening Show from 3rd to 5th September.
The show is an ideal day out for gardeners - the event showcases the finest in autumn gardening, with features that are unique to the show, advice from experts, and help on how to grow plants and vegetables.
Show highlights include:
National Dahlia Society Show – very trendy and there is no better place to find out all you need to know about these lovely blooms. All kinds of combinations of form, size and colour of this fashionable flower will be on show.
The National Gardening Show has become an essential venue in the autumn calendar for gardeners
The UK’s biggest vegetables – the UK National Giant Vegetables Championships is a show highlight! Each year competitor’s return in the hope of breaking world reacords - last year a gigantic 5.9kg parsnip broke the world record!
grow their own food will be able to learn about growing techniques and allotments, as well as how to cook tasty fresh meals with the resident chef in the Cookery Theatre.
Scarecrow competition – this fun initiative features interesting and unique scarecrows, which are displayed and judged at the Show.
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Bristol University students start to grow their own
A new ‘Grow Your Own’ scheme, which aims to encourage undergraduate students to grow and eat their own fruit and vegetables, has been launched at the University of Bristol and Gloucestershire.
The scheme aims to promote long-term behavioural and dietary change amongst students.
Both universities will be provided with plants, seeds and tools, as well as advice and support from their local Homebase store. The University of Bristol Students’ Union will focus on developing its centenary garden orchard and allotments at its halls of residence as well as encouraging more people to get involved in the project through community gardening training schemes. The University of Gloucestershire aims to raise the profile of their union gardening scheme, which supports an off-campus allotment. The Union is also in the process of securing agreement for allotments on each campus.
Bristol students about to try growing their own veg
Martin Wiles, Head of Sustainability at the University of Bristol, added: “It’s great that the university has been able to be a part of this scheme which will give students and volunteers the opportunity to get involved with growing their own food. We’re looking forward to seeing our ideas and plants come to life.”
Barton House vines get a blessing
The owner of a Cotswold vineyard could be hoping for divine intervention after his blossom was blessed. The flowering vines at Barton House at Barton-on-the-Heath received a traditional blessing, which dates back to biblical times, by the Rev Canon Anthony Wells.
The ceremony was attended by two historic groups – the Ordres des Chevaliers Bretvins- Muscadet, which is twinned with Alcester, and the Commanderie du Taste-Saumur, which is twinned with Warwick.
The Barton House vineyards were planted by Mr Cathie in 2000 with the assistance of his former gardener, Mike Beer.
More than 4,000 bottles have been produced to date and used for family and charity fund- raising purposes including being sold at the annual village fete on the village green in July.
Barton House
Barton House has a six and a half acre garden open to the public and claims the Cotswolds’ best rhododendron collection with many rare and recently collected species.
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