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GROW & GIVE It’s a great time of year to plan future garden visits with the new NGS Yellow Book, and for thinking up new ways to use your skills to help charities and your local community WORDS SUE BRADLEY Gardeners across the UK are being urged to get the 2013 growing season off to a flying start and help raise much-needed funds for charity by taking part in Garden Re-Leaf Day. More than 500 garden centres are expected to run a range of special in-store and community activities, on and around Friday 8 March, to mark the event. All money raised will go to Greenfingers, a charity chaired by Matthew Wilson that raises funds to build gardens at children’s hospices. Last year’s inaugural Garden Re- Leaf Day brought in more than £50,000 from a range of activities, including quizzes, school growing initiatives, fancy dress and celebrity advice. This money paid for an interactive play garden at the Donna Louise Children’s Hospice in Stoke-on-Trent (right) and four new gardens at Robin House Children’s Hospice in West Dunbartonshire. ‘Whether you’re a gardening novice or an expert, young or old, there’ll be something for you to enjoy,’ says the event’s founder, garden retailer Boyd Douglas-Davies. ‘It’s a fantastic opportunity to get fresh gardening inspiration, and a chance to help a really worthwhile cause.’ For details in your area, visit www.gardenreleaf.co.uk If you are looking for volunteers or are involved in a project, share it by writing to us at The English Garden, Archant House, Oriel Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 1BB, or send an email to theenglishgarden@archant.co.uk 100 the english garden February 2013 Greenfingers’ Matthew Wilson helping seven-year-old Billy Heslop plant a tree at The Donna Louise Children’s Hospice with his parents and brother Jack.
IMAGES/TATTON - HARLECH WOMENS INTITUTE Gardening inspiration Avid gardener Marilyn Taylor believes her hobby saved her life; for it was while she was cutting branches with her 4.9m pruner that she first had an inkling that all was not right with her health. ‘Once I’d finished the job, I threw the pruner on top of the growing pile of branches I’d cut off,’ recalls Marilyn (right). ‘At that moment something in the back of my neck hurt and didn’t feel quite right.’ It would take nine weeks, and a great deal of persistence from Marilyn, however, before doctors discovered her pain was due to a rare spinal tumour and performed a life-saving operation. Marilyn, who lives near Nottingham, tells the story of how gardening saved her life in a new book, The Cancer Survivors’ Club by Chris Geiger; a collection of inspirational stories that it is hoped will give everyone touched by the disease a renewed determination to survive. Women of Harlech Rail passengers pausing at Harlech station have the town’s Women’s Institute to thank for cheerful displays of flowers. The group of volunteers has been caring for the area around their local platform for the past three years after signing up to Arriva Trains Wales’ station adoption scheme. In that time, they have given Harlech station a makeover with plants and a specially commissioned mural. Arriva Trains were so impressed by the WI members’ efforts that it chose them to create a garden at the RHS Tatton Park Flower Show 2011. The silver gilt medal-winning display (above) included a small train and a replica boat full of flowers, similar to the one seen by rail passengers at Harlech. www.rhs.org.uk DID YOU KNOW? More than 3,700 gardens in England and Wales will be opening in aid of charities supported by the National Gardens Scheme in 2013. These include more than 600 plots that are either new to the Yellow Book or returning to its pages after a break. The 81st edition will be on sale this month. Warning for guerrilla gardeners Gardeners eager to improve public land near their homes could learn a lesson from the experiences of a community-minded doctor, who was told to pay an £84 fee and apply for a licence after she planted nine shrubs to deter drivers from churning up a verge. Cambridgeshire County Council insisted that the actions were in breach of the Highways Act 1980, which allows local authorities to control planting on public land. It says it is standard practice to demand a licence to cultivate highways land, the fee for which covers the costs of inspecting the site and agreeing a suitable planting scheme. Digging in Determined volunteers and councillors in Finchampstead (below) have prepared the ground so that local people can grow their own food. Their efforts meant that more than 50 tenants were able to start growing fruit and vegetables last autumn. ‘For years, the land has not been used for growing food,’ explains Caroline Grant, of the Finchampstead Allotment Association. An allotment committee is currently raising funds to create a communal garden, compost toilet and storage facilities and to develop more plots. It has also organised a discount seed-ordering service. In the Pink volunteering Sales of a new plant have raised just over £1,300 for Breast Cancer Care. Osteospermum ‘In the Pink’, launched by actress Geraldine Somerville (below, centre) at the 2012 RHS Chelsea Flower Show last May, was bred by the team at Fairweather’s Nursery in Beaulieu. The new plant boasts masses of daisy-like pink flowers on short upright stems in June and July. The company donated 20p from every plant sold in the first half of 2012 to Breast Cancer Care, a charity close to the heart of Patrick Fairweather (below, right), whose wife, Steff (below, left), recently battled with the disease and is currently in good health. www.fairweathersnursery.co.uk February 2013 the english garden 101
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