Your great gardening stories Young people’s art to be displayed at top garden show
Soap star opens community greenhouse
This year’s Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Flower Show at Tatton Park is just around the corner and our younger tenants have been ‘busy bees’ helping us to make our 2012 entry.
Young Coronation Street star Ellie Leach joined residents in Audenshaw to open a new community greenhouse.
New Charter has entered the RHS Tatton show for the past three years now and this year, it is creating its second Show Garden; a category it won a Bronze medal for in 2010.
Ellie, (11), who plays Faye Butler in the soap, visited the Stanhope estate to celebrate the opening of the new greenhouse and encourage young people to get involved in volunteering.
Young people from New Charter’s DreamScheme project (aged 8 to 16) have been working hard for months to create designs for this year’s entry. The garden titled ‘A Year in the Life of DreamScheme’ will show the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Six groups from different neighbourhoods have attended workshops to carefully craft pieces of art that will be used in the final garden to be judged on 16th July. The groups have been willow sculpting and mosaic painting with a local artist while learning more about bugs and the environment with country wardens. As well as being plenty of fun, the workshops help to empower and motivate young people.
Getting stuck in: Ellie helps young tenants to plant seeds
New Charter has helped to fund the greenhouse with residents from the Audenshaw Community Association raising money for it too. Residents will run and manage the greenhouse which will be used to grow fruit and flowers. New Charter will also run workshops to teach people how to turn produce into food.
Ellie meets New Charter’s Les Crowther and resident David Pinnock at the greenhouse
Here’s some photos of you enjoying your Jubilee celebrations!
The designs will be kept under wraps, but until the show’s on, here’s a sneak preview of some of their work which will be on display during the RHS Tatton Show (18th - 22nd July).
Residents at Gibson Terrace (left) and Ashurst Gardens (right) enjoyed Jubilee street and garden parties
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