Dartmouth Green Partnerships GARDENING
Festival on Saturday 21 –Sunday 22 June, a new event in the Dartmouth calendar so make sure you put it in your diary. Royal Avenue Gardens will host a wide range of family friendly, flower themed activities, displays, competitions and events. These include stall featuring wildlife, birds and bee keeping, local garden expert, Iris Webb, and the National Gardens scheme. There will be a flower fairy/ ugly bug fancy dress competition for children and a flowery dog show, plus lots of music. In the Old Market, stalls will be selling plants and flower related crafts and there will be workshops on herbs and creating paper flowers. We are delighted to offer a great event on saturday evening at the Flavel, when garden expert Anne
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artmouth Green Partnerships, formerly Dartmouth in Bloom, is organising a Midsummer Flower
Foral riverside walk: Several new planters were placed along the embankment last year as the start of a floral walk along the riverside
swithinbank will talk about her Devon garden followed by the RHs’s Bob sweet on judging at Chelsea and other international events (tickets from the Flavel). There will be a full day Art Master Class on flower painting with RHs Gold Medallist Rosie Martin at Townstal Community Hall on the saturday (pre- book only, see our website). shops in the town will participate in a flower-themed window-dressing competition featuring a spot the Bug trail. Local churches will create gold themed flower displays. Dartmouth Green Partnerships is
NOW OPEN DAILY, ALL YEAR ROUND (see website for details) Admission £3.50, Children 50p Parties welcome by appointment Disabled: please phone prior to visit
Monthly guided walks with local naturalist (call for details) PLANTS FOR SALE
creating displays on this year’s RHs theme, ‘Growing for Gold for Pollinators’ – celebrating 50 years of Britain in Bloom. The aim is to grow plants which attract butterflies, bees and other insects and we hope Dartmouth folk will join us in planting themed displays to impress the judges as we go for gold following our success in both the national and regional RHs Britain in Bloom competitions last year.
The other RHs theme is ‘Poppies’ marking the start of World War I a century ago. We have planted wild flowers with poppies in the mix in many more areas than last year, including the top of town and in Beacon Park, and there will be special memorial poppy displays. New for 2014 is a cutting garden for
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flowers in the raised beds near the greenhouse. There will be more planted boats and hopefully new troughs along the North embankment as part of a floral riverside walk, started last year with large planters. Our hanging baskets have once again been created by us with the help of community groups including children. The temporary cover over the greenhouse
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