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EASTER'S GOLDEN HOST Tel: Swindon 870515 for a FREE estimate.
by Clair Beaton
April is the month in which plants Either of these trips is likely to
finally get growing again after lead you outside into your garden -----
the cold of winter. The very mild later in the month to clear the PINE F[JR]V / r$
January we had this year brought winter debris and start planting k
all the spring bulbs shooting up for the summer. It is a good
from the ground; and there they month in which to buy container -
seem to have stayed. Perhaps grown shrubs and perennials; at
they are waiting for Easter least you can see they are still
Sunday when they can provide alive and making growth, not
the traditional setting of daffodils remnants from last year that
massed on grassy slopes. have been freezing in their pots THE COTSWOLD COLLECTION
West Swindon itself has many over the winter. Also you have Probably the best collection of QUALITY PINE FURNITURE in
open spaces colonised by clumps your pick of the fresh stock. the West Country, at the most competitive prices. Come and
of yellow daffs. However if you Once the usual and popular see for yourself. Most items are immediately from stock.
would like an outing on Easter varieties have been sold there Credit terms available.
Sunday, to see daffodils other may not be any of that variety —
than those planted by Thames- available again until next year. ' 33 Cricklade Road, Gorse Hill, Swindon. Tel: 511898
down for our benefit, there are Definitely a month for visiting Open Mon—Sat 9.30 am. —5.30 p.m.
two gardens open in aid of the nurseries and garden centres.
National Gardens Scheme, listed Most instructions for planting
in the Yellow Book, and I am include adding peat to your [
PURCHASE OR EXCHANGE
torn in my choice of which of planting hole. This really should J'LJ U your Gift Token with us.
them to visit. be your final step to making the "THE PRESENT FOR
The first is Faringdon House, soil fit for plants. The first step is THE FUTURE"
whose entrance is next to the to get as much fibre into your VISIT YOUR
church in Faringdon Market clay as possible; compost,
Place. I have not visited this manure, peat, or my favourite, LOCAL GARDEN
garden before but I have seen pulverised bark. I plan to put as CENTRE
pictures of its water features; much bark as I can afford in a
formal pools, a stream and a generous layer on top of the soil Large Selection of Trees.
lake; and the guide promises once it has started warming up Shrubs • Alpines • Heathers.
'bulbs'. I have a mental picture with the sun. It may sound like a Conifers & Herbaceous
Perennials.
of quiet rolling parkland with wonder treatment but it does
mature trees whose bare branches slow down the weeds, discourage All Your Garden Requirements.
are black against a spring sky and slugs and help any new plants HAYDON WICK, SWINDON
black in reflection on blue water. root in when you do drop them Tel: Swindon 721221
And, of course, there ought to be into their peaty planting holes. I Entrance Junction Lady Lane
luxurious swags of daffodils can only suggest you try it. I do and Westfield Way
draped across the turf and around not give guarantees, but I would
the feet of the buildings. be suprised if you did not find .....u....... NEE ..... ...
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Faringdon House is open April your soil easier to work with, A6
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2nd and 3rd, 2-6 p.m., Admission even by this autumn. ::
60p (children lop). TOOL AND PLANT HI&.
Alternatively (or as well if the BLOOMING
weather encourages a visit to ALL OVER I: o n
Faringdon House on Easter E
Saturday), Newark Park at Once again Thamesdown Coun-
Ozleworth is described as having cil's parks department efforts
spectacular views in addition to over the years is on display all
its ten acre woodland setting. It over the Borough. Spring has P
is perched on the edge of the sprung in parks all over Swindon : .
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Cotswolds 11/2 miles east of and the Penhill Park on Inglesham • . .
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Wootton-under-Edge. 1 /2 miles Road is worth a visit. A total of • MON-FRI. Sam —6pm; SAT. Barn —5p m .
south of the A4135/134058 62 varieties of bulbs will be on • • 9
Unit 9, Marlborough Road Industrial Estate,
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junction. This time admission is show until June. A leaflet is gas Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire SN4 8AX
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Tel: Swindon 854821
£1.00 (children SOp), open April available from the park staff • I I
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