Garden writer launches
growing festival M 1 2 4 3
onmouthshire’s Anne Wareham, writer of The Bad-Tempered Gardener, will launch the county’s
inaugural year-long festival of growing at Bridges Community Centre, Monmouth on March 2. The event, from 5.30pm until 7pm, sees the offi cial launch of The Green Book of Growing in Monmouthshire, a directory listing open gardens, walks, talks, exhibitions, demonstrations and workshops being held throughout the county in 2013 as part of a year-long celebration of green and green fi ngered gardeners.
The book highlights community projects and sustainable gardening methods and encourages people to enjoy the county’s wonderful, fertile land. Free copies will be available at the launch event and can also be obtained from local tourist information centres.
Anne welcomes The Green Book as
an opportunity for growers to ‘show off a little to everyone else who might be inspired by their efforts or who might enjoy the exchange of garden gossip and best methods’. She said it is ‘an opportunity to see what
everyone has been doing, learn about how, and discover that this is something everyone can do, whether with small amounts of time and space or with acres of land to get to grips with, and none of it needing a banker’s bonus to fund’. Her own book, The Bad-Tempered
Gardener is the story of how she and her husband, garden photographer Charles Hawes, designed and made their acclaimed garden at Veddw House near Devauden. The garden, which featured in the RHS
magazine The Garden in December 2012 and appeared on Alan Titchmarsh’s Love Your Garden earlier last year, will be open to the public during the festival, from June 2 until August 26, every Sunday afternoon from 2pm to 5pm. The launch event is being organised
5 7 6
1. Cold frame. £39.95.
www.primrose.co.uk 2. Garden ornament. £45.
www.miafleur.com 3. Kneeler and glose set. £5.
www.dobbies.com 4. Birdhouse. £19.00.
www.retreat-home.com 5. Garden tidy. £24.95.
www.dotcomgiftshop.com 6. Chimenea. £129.
www.livingitup.co.uk 7. Assorted vintage fabric windmills. £3.95 each.
www.dotcomgiftshop.com
by Louise McGuinness, festivals and events co-ordinator for adventa, part of Monmouthshire’s rural development programme. As part of the county’s year-long festival
of growing she has brought together individuals and groups involved in ‘green’ gardening who will be holding events during 2013. Other events being held in March
under the banner of The Green Book include Seedy Sunday, an annual seed and plant swap at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Baker Street, Abergavenny on March 10; a presentation on Vegetable Gardening by Ivor Mace being organised by the Llantilio Pertholey Village Produce Association on March 18 and A Wild Taste of the Countryside, a food foraging and preparation workshop being held at Kate Humble’s Humble by Nature Farm near Monmouth on March 16. For more information about
events in The Green Book of Growing in Monmouthshire visit: www.
festivalsinmonmouthshire.co.uk.
53
Gardening goodies
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88