Garden Machinery Steve Blake & Simon Carter (Formerly of M. W. Partridge & Co)
All makes & types of Garden Machinery Serviced and Repaired including: Strimmers Chainsaws Handtools Cylinder Sharpening Local Collection and Delivery Steve Blake 07813 814623
Simon Carter 07944 115190
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HADLEIGH & DISTRICT GARDEN CLUB Monday 14th February Community Room at U.R. Church, 7.30 p.m.
TREES FOR SMALL GARDENS illustrated talk by Matthew Tatton-Brown Members £1 - Visitors £2 includes refreshments
M. W. Partridge & Co. Ltd. Workshop will be closed as of January 1st 2011 Steve Blake and Simon Carter would like to assure customers that they intend to continue to provide the complete range of services previously offered at ‘Partridges’. We are based locally, are both manufacturer trained and have over 50 years combined experience in the Garden Machinery Industry. We have available full workshop facilities to cater for all our customers’ garden and horticultural machinery needs. Telephone Steve 07813 814623 or Simon 07944 115190 ‘Providing a personal and competitive service’
Hadleigh & District Garden Club Would anyone believe the rapt attention Claire Horne got from the membership of Hadleigh and District Garden Club on Monday 10th January on the subject of “Garden Pests and Diseases”! It was clear that everything she mentioned chimed with us all and you could have heard a pin drop as this highly experienced speaker gave us the benefit of that experience. Claire started working at the bottom of the gardening spectrum, working first for Nottcuts, then Wyvale and moving onwards and upwards to being part of the research team for Gardening Which and now works for herself freelance. Her encyclopaedic knowledge of bugs, beetles, moulds rusts, galls and all things bent on frustrating us gardeners, or not in some cases, was truly inspirational and largely encouraging as she assured as that many of the problems were more to do with the health of the plant than the actual ”pest” itself and that generally speaking it is weak and struggling plants that succomb to complaints - rather like us humans. It was a fascinating, instructional talk accompanied by a most sophisticated system of terrific visuals showing the various problems down to the truly minute beasties, pests, moulds and rusts. There followed a lengthy question and answer session, in fact poor Claire was virtually the last to leave as the questions kept coming as she was trying to pack-up. She did emphasise that the best pest control was the thumb and finger in close proximity to said pest. Next months talk is on “Trees for Small Gardens” on 14th February and is the last for the present season as the March meeting will be the AGM on 14th March. For more information phone Ruth Allen 822323
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