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The Link Magazine • April 2005 39
More gardens wanted to show off Pond dipping help wanted
in aid of Breakthrough Volunteers are invited to take part
in a weekend to create an outdoor
The now traditional West Swindon annual open gardens weekend takes
classroom for Abbey Meads
place on 25 and 26 June and organisers would like more gardeners to join
them in raising cash for Breakthrough Breast Cancer. School on 16 and 17 April.
Work includes building a pond
Last year 18 gar-
dipping platform, hedge and shrub
dens were opened, hr, planting, and tidying up the area.
mainly in the Nine
r
breast, car.^cer ol-1^7J- Cheques totalling £1,500 will be
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Elms area, raising
presented by the Co-op and Swin-
£2,300 for the char-
don Agenda 21 to fund the work.
ity. But coordina-
For details call Roxanna Cox on
tor Lesley Dredge
0796 602 3636.
would like more to S
Right, November's pond clean up
join in. "It's great +
working party
fun to open your
garden and show ,? a p
off your hard work ; ^ Trees growing
and creativity. _; ,. tF ^f„
We're still nearl y +' Several hundred people turned
out to plant trees at Purton Wood
threemonthsawa\
Lesley, above, and open gardens volunteers will he ready on 5 March.
from the weekend
to serve up much needed refreshment The day was run jointly by the
so there's time to
Woodland Trust and the Great
plan your garden display, and even
vvestern community rorest.
invite people to drop by and sug- Forest meeting
gest what you can do with it." Neil, Lynne and Charlotte Martin
The Swindon Forest Protection
She added that participants from Taw Hill were just one family to
Group holds its Annual General
don't have to open on both days, take part
Meeting on Monday 11 April,
nor do they have to be in West
7.30pm at the Woodlands Edge,
Swindon. Gardens in other parts
Peatmoor Village Centre.
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