GARDENERS’ CUTTINGS IN THE CO TSWOLDS
REVIVING A VISIT TO WORLD HERITAGE SITE
Hone your camera skills at Batsford
Cleeve Nursery co owner Alan Down will relive his visit last year to the world famous world heritage site desert of Namakwaland in a special talk at the Bristol nursery on February 22nd at 7.30pm. He will show how the desert in South Africa is transformed when spring rains arrive. His trip, with his wife Felicity, was made in September last year. Tickets for this Royal Horticultural Society Nursery Partnership event are £8 for RHS members or £10 non members. Cleeve Nursery, Main Rd, Cleeve Bristol BS49 4PW Tel: O1934 832134
HELLEBORE GARDENS OPEN FOR TWO SUNDAYS IN MARCH Kapunda Hellebore Gardens, Southstoke, Bath is an inspiring garden to visit during March when the extensive display beds of Lenten roses are showing off their beautiful flowerheads. Juliet Davis’ passion for these plants has led her to dedicating her energies to create some wonderful new hybrids with the result that her exquisite blooms thrill visitors who venture forth from far and wide. She opens her garden for charity twice during the month and sells her plants at a few plant fairs. Kapunda, Southstoke Lane, Bath BA2 5SH Tel: 01225 832165 Email: kapundaplants@hotmail.co.uk Open in Aid of Dorothy House Hospice - Sunday 5th March 2-4pm. Open in Aid of the Wessex MS Therapy Centre - Sunday 26th March 2-4pm Admission £4, children free. Garden clubs and societies welcome by arrangement.
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There’s a chance to improve your camera skills and enter your photos into the Batsford Arboretum calendar competition! Join Alan Ranger, an internationally acclaimed and award winning professional photographer, on a three hour photography workshop at Batsford. Suitable for any level of photographer or camera as Alan will guide you through camera settings and the basics of composition, before guiding you around parts of Batsford to make the best images that reflect that particular month of the year. You then have the option to enter your images and have your image printed in the official Batsford Arboretum Calendar, as well as win other prizes. Monthly workshops will run from 10am to 1pm on Thursday, 23rd February and Tuesday 21st March. Batsford Arboretum and Garden Centre, Batsford, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire GL56 9QB
Easter Sculpture Festival promises great things The Easter Sculpture festival at University of Bristol Botanic Garden has become a favourite for families, as well as art and Garden lovers, with the plants in the botanic garden beginning to stir, flower arriving around every corner and leaves beginning to burst on trees and shrubs. The festival runs from Good Friday, 4th April, 10am until Easter Monday, 17th April at 5pm. There is another impressive line up of really fantastic sculptors this year. One of the stars will be Lucianne Lassalle, the Paris born sculptor who now lives in Bristol. Her aunt was one of Picasso’s muses so she has a fantastic artistic heritage. There is also Philippa Macarthur for the first time. Her ceramics will be adding an extra dimension to the Evolutionary Dell. www.bristol.ac.uk
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