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Useful websites

Pashley Manor

National Gardens Scheme

Garden Organic

Wakehurst Place

Chiswick House Kitchen Garden

The Royal Horticultural Society

Great Dixter

University of Oxford Botanic Garden

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

RHS Garden Hyde Hall

Gardening events April 2007

Beautiful spring gardens for you to visit, workshops on compost, masterclasses on planning small gardens - here are just a few of the events available to you throughout April

(NGS) National Gardens Scheme

The following garden is open for charity in April

1 & 2 April, 2007 - Little Court, Hampshire

Small Garden Creation

2 April 2007
RHS Garden Hyde Hall , Essex

One of the RHS' most popular children's events, Small Garden Creation helps develop a child's interest in gardening. With the assistance and encouragement of the Hyde Hall garden team, children will create their own miniature container garden to take home.

Normal garden admission plus £3 per child Advance booking essential - phone the Garden direct on 01245 400256

Plants Bite Back!

9 April 2007
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Lothian

This introduction to the world of carniverous plants is part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

Blooming Easter

9 April 2007
University of Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxfordshire

Drop-in Easter art activity for children inspired by plants in the Botanic Garden.

For more information please see www.botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk

Good Planting and Border Management

16 April 2007
Great Dixter, East Sussex

£80 including lunch and refreshments

Head Gardener Fergus Garrett explains how to combine plants using colour, shape and texture. He will also cover feeding, weeding, composting and staking borders.

Please telephone 01797 252878 to book.

Tulip Day at Chiswick House

April 29, 2007 1-5pm

The cutting garden should be a vision of tulips, including the rare Lac van Rijn, a variety dating back to 1620. The rest of the garden should also be springing back to life. There will also be a selection of stalls, plant sales of more unusual varieties, refreshments and plant-related art activities for children.

Bluebells at Wakehurst Place, Kew's country garden

Guided walking tours on Saturdays 28 April and 12 May, between 11am and 2pm

Minibus tours for the less mobile on Sunday 29 April and 13 May from 10:15am until 3:30pm

Sussex is renowned for its splendid displays of bluebells, perhaps nowhere more so than at Kew's country garden.

Wakehurst Place, near Haywards Heath, boasts acre upon acre of hyacinthoides non scripta (our native English bluebell) which provide a magnificent floral carpet against a stunning backdrop of white birch barks from the National Collection.

This year, staff at Wakehurst are staging special weekends to make the most of both the bluebells and other native spring flowers such as primroses and milkmaids.

Tulip Extravaganza

Pashley Manor Gardens, East Sussex
24 April – 3rd May 2007

Now in its thirteenth year, the Festival displays 15,000 blooms in a quintessential English Garden. Some 93 varieties are shown from the vibrant red and hot orange coloured tulips in the herbaceous borders to the cream, white, pale golden yellow and apricot tulips in the Elizabethan Garden and the pink and white tulips along the Terrace.

Admission to Tulip Festival: £7.00 (for all, group rate not applicable)

Opening times: From 11.00 am – 5.00 pm including Special Event days unless otherwise stated
Admission to Tulip Festival: £7.00 (for all, group rate not applicable).

Website: www.pashleymanorgardens.com

Shady Gardening

Garden Organic Ryton
19 April 2007 at Garden Organic Ryton, 2pm to 4pm

Cost: Members - £20.00
Non-members - £25.00

Garden Organic Advisors will inspire you to transform dark shady areas with colourful, and vibrant new plantings.

To book, call 024 7630 8224

Organic Garden Design

28 April 2007 at Garden Organic Ryton, 10am to 4pm

Cost: Members - £50.00
Non-members - £55.00

A one day course with Maggi Brown, using basic design principles, and incorporating organic garden practices, you'll discover how to transform your garden.

Composting

21 April 2007 at Garden Organic Yalding, 11am, repeated at 3pm

Cost: Members - £6.00
Non-members - £10.00

Discover the different techniques and containers that can be used to create free fertiliser and soil conditioner.

To book, call 01622 817503

This article was created: 15 March 2007.
This article was last edited: 29 March 2007.

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