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Calling all you Gardeners! CAR BOOT SALE
Its time to enter the West Swindon Gardening Club's Gardening DUNCAN
Competition. At the bottom of this page, you will find an entry form SELF DRIVE
to register your garden for judging. The competition is open to anyone
living in West Swindon and there's no entry fee. All that is needed is HIRE
your time to get your garden in shape.
• Send your entry to The Link Magazine', 13 Castle Dore, Freshbrook, Vehicles for Hire at
Swindon, by 15 June 1989. Competitive Rates Behind Queensway/Sandfords
• Judging will be carried out during the first two weeks in July. A short Vans - Lutons -Estates Great Western Way
list of six entries will go forward to the final judging at the end of July. EVERY 2 WEEKS
• All entries will be judged as a whole irrespective of size or contents. Cars & Mini Bus Sunday 7 May & 21 May
• The Judges will be looking for: 272 Ermin Street Toilets & Refreshments
- Layout to give a pleasing effect. Stratton St. Margaret Pitch £6. Admission 20p
- Quantity, quality and variety of plants Swindon Supporting the West Swindon
- Tidiness - paths swept, flowers deadheaded, weeds removed, Tel: 822193 Family Project
plants staked if required, lawns mowed and edged, etc. Open Daily 9am - 6pm Trade from 8am
- Any special features - greenhouse, rockery, tubs and hanging Sundays 9am - 1 p Public 9.30am - 1 p
baskets - to be judged same way. Tel: Swindon 764911
• Prizes: The Gardening Club is finalising the prize list and the
rewards for your hard work will be published in the June Link. There Entrance at the junction of
will be prizes for people who have lived in their house for over 3 years Lady Lane and Westfield
and others for those who have occupied their houses for less than Way, Haydon Wick.
three years. The Link Magazine will be offering a special prize forthe HUNISMHEIS Tel: Swindon 721221
most attractive garden under one year old from 1 June.
VISIT YOUR
In Grand Style means their sweet scent is held ready LOCAL GARDEN
for the passer-by to enjoy.
by Claire Beaton suggests a Other elements of the garden to CENTRE
visit to give you competitive enjoy are an arboretum, a vegetable
inspiration garden with old trained fruit trees, Large selection of
Misarden Park is a garden in the wisteria, a squash court masquerad- • Trees. Shrubs
grand tradition with separate areas ing as a small chapel and a wonder- • Alpines. Heathers
each planted to a different purpose. ful pair of yew hedges with their tops
The scale seems too large to offer any clipped into curves and boxes. • Conifers
ideas useful to the 'Urban Village' Almost they resemble a railway train • Herbaceous Perennials
gardener, but, there are ideas that steaming uphill. • Discounts on all composts
could be put to use in any garden. Misarden Park is at Miserden, 7
At the back of the wide herba- miles NE of Stroud. Admission £1, • Visit us for all your garden requirements
ceous borders that stretch towards Children free. Open Sunday 14 May
the House are a series of vertical rustic (2pm - 6pm)
poles with climbing roses, clematis
or vines scrambling up them. One Where to get your
problem with our small gardens is
that any tree we might plant takes plants
too long to grow to an effective size, Its the busiest month of the year at
or grows with dangerous vigour and local garden centres and North
smothers the garden with cool Swindon's Grange Farm nurseries is
shadow. Training climbing plants no exception.
up a fence post planted securely in a They have good stocks of bedding
metal socket and wrapped with plas- plants, the lastest Busy Lizzies shown
tic mesh provides an almost instant at last year's Chelsea Flower Show 149
solution. and everything you require to make
In another area, a small passage bright and colourful hanging bas-as
bounded by a wall on the right and kets. kets. EASY PARKING— COLLECTION/DELIVERY SERVICE
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by hedge on the left, a simple rolled Proprietors Mr. and Mrs. Trotman MON-FRI. 8am-6pm; SAT. 8arn-5pm
Unit 9, Marlborough Road Industrial Estate,
gravel surface has been laid and a have tremendous knowledge of Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire SN4 8AX
row of evergreen Mexican Orange Plants and gardening so Grange Farm Tel: Swindon 854821
(Choisya ternato) has been planted Nurseries must be the perfect place
against the wall. The restricted space to go to get your garden in shape. -U. U...
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WEST SWINDON GARDENING CLUB

invites householders in West Swindon to enter the area's first ever Gardening
Competition in June by returning this Entry Form to
The Link Magazine, (Garden Competition), 13 Castle Dore, Freshbrook, Swindon SN5 8PQ

Name:
Address:

Telephone:
The date you moved into your house
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