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38 The Link Magazine • July 2003
Bonsai on display Fuchsia show
ZANDSERVE The Swindon & District Bonsai So- Saturday 26 July, 1pm - 4.30pm
ciety show takes place on Satur- Haydon Wick
Garden Maintenance
day 5 July, 10.30am to 4.30pm at Community Centre
& Landscaping ;filly
Coleview Community Centre. Entrance £1, children 50p
Professional Care r y t f, Entry £1. Refreshments. Trade Disabled access
For four Garden ^' d^^ stand. For more information call Organised by the Swindon
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Grass Cutting 07870 995727. Fuchsia & Pelargonium Society.
Regular Maintenance
Open gardens at Westonbirt School
Landscaping
A delightful mixture of formal and informal features, rare and exotic
Patios & Brick Block Paving
shrubs, an extensive terraced pleasure garden, Italianate walled gar-
Hedge Cutting & Pruning dens, water features, wooded walks to a lake and spectacular views of
No Job Too Small. Free Quotations Emma Russell and Ben Callaghan ad- the Westonbirt House.
miring a 50 year old Japanese white pine Open Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays: 13 July to 5
Call Martin Emery iMII Hort.
brought into Westlea School by Bonsai September, 11am - 4.30pm. Free parking, access for wheelchair users,
on 01793 870956
Society chairman Paul Bowerbank ear- dogs welcome if kept on leads. Entry: £3.50 adults, £2 for school age
or Mobile 07771 956294
lier in the year children, under 5s free.
Enquiries during weekday office hours, call 01666 880333.
Westonbirt School can be found on the A433, west of Cirencester.
Dm yotto g6RIeK Keefl) 4 CL Timber
tif^y-top ok a ks4l2e-ovek1 New & reclaimed Gardens without borders
Do you tack the tilde ok New & old A celebration of contemporary garden design at the Westonbirt
l^kow-kow Keebea? sleepers, ply, International Festival of Gardens: 6 June - 14 September
pressure treated The Westonbirt International Festival of Gardens together with the
We can help
timber & decking Swindon Link is offering readers the opportunity to visit this year's
Call J & J BEATTIE for garden use, event using the 'four adults for the price of three' voucher below.
Garden Maintenance close-board fencing The festival runs until 14
& Design Delivery arranged in Swindon area, September at one of Brit-
ain's most popular visitor
Tel: 01793 770955 Drop by or tel: 829715 attractions, the National
Mob: 0776 2244925 Arboretum at Westonbirt
The Yard Mo pen;
Local & reliable in Gloucestershire.
Tate Estate yam Sat)
Regular maintenance Kingsdown Road SPJ Now in its second year,
work also welcomed c._ Stratton St Margaret, Swindon it is dedicated to contem-
porary conceptual garden
design with cutting-edge
work by 14 international
M SMITH LANDSCAPES designers, highlighting col-
our, water, light, shade,
Consider it done unusual plants and even
more unusual materials, all within walking around and on them, and
st The complete landscape service the unique environment of the ar- the 'typical' British summer. Each
from survey to completion. boretum. has to look as good on the final day
s7 Make your dream garden The open landscape of the festi- of the festival as it did on day one,
a reality val site invites designs free from allowing for evolution and growth
:Y Patios designed. laid & repaired inhibition or pretension allowing over subsequent months.
dY Walls, steps, all brickwork designers to take advantage of en- During the three month festival,
considered couraging visitors to become 'part the Arboretum will reveal a few
Every aspect of your garden
Yt Fencing and fence repairs of the garden', to interact with it, more surprises - hidden amongst
undertaken. Call now for your enjoy it, wander in it or sit and the trees and clearings will be the
!7 Block paving with new designs , free no obligation quote reflect, as opposed to merely ob- work of eight installation artists.
s7 Turf supplied and laid Tel: 01793 812496 serving it from afar. Created specifically for the Arbo-
* Water features installed Designers had to consider not retum, their pieces will add a new
:r References available if required or 07789 231329 only the aesthetic qualities of their dimension and raise a few eye-
gardens, but also give careful con- brows and questions in equal
sideration as to how their ideas measure.
Tel: 855800 Fax: 840139 can attract and relate to the visit- The Festival of Gardens is open
ing audience. A key challenge was daily from 10am to 6pm. For fur-
e: [email protected]
that the gardens should be able to ther information call 01666 880220.
Unit 23 & 24 Oaklands Ind. Estate
withstand three months of people www.festivalofgardens.co.uk
Braydon, Swindon
• Locally run family
4 tickets for the price of 3
business
• Closed board/
panel or picket u _ - Cut out and present this voucher at the ticket sales o ffice on arrival at the
fencing & gates Westonbirt International Festival of Gardens and you will receive one free
adult ent ry ticket for every three full priced adult entry tickets purchased.
• Repairs &
refurbishments This offer only applies when three full priced at the ticket holder's own risk. The voucher
adult tickets are purchased — concessiona ry is not to be re-sold or transferred for profit
and child tickets are not eligible. The offer is or commercial gain. The event organiser is
• Pressure injected Friendly help and advice valid from 6th June 2003 to 14th September Westonbi rt,
timber treatment an on all fencing matters 2003. This voucher may not be used in The National - TTiT
all closed board Suppliers to trade public conjunction with any other offer. Tickets are Arboretum. Tetbury, YI^]ti:1fLlsa7.g
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Gloucestershire
sold subject to the rules and regulations of
• Made to measure gates Free home quotations the event organiser. The festival may be Gt_8 803.
cancelled or postponed by the organiser f e s t i v a ( '
• Concrete posts without giving notice Ent ry to the festival is TL07 9
available I
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