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From politics to garden pots Youth project
Three years ago Jill Blackwood decided to leave her job working for first date in diary
GARDEN MAGIC a local MP and turn her passion for gardening into a business.
RHS Exhibitor 2005 After a two year course in gar- Even though it is still not known
RHS Silver Medal 2006 den design at Swindon College she when the Wyvern will reopen,
Professional design launched Jill Blackwood Garden plans for the Summer Youth
Project between 12 and 27 August
& landscaping service Magic in April 2004. are well underway.
Hand drawn imaginative At the Malvern Gardening Show Auditions for the yet-to-be-
and individual designs. in 2006 she was awarded a prestig-
Plant plans for colour and interest ious Royal Horticultural Society named musical show will be held
Silver Medal for her show garden on Sunday 13 May at Swindon
FOR A FREE CONSULTATION Dance in Regent Circus.
A Bonnie Burn, right.
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fee of £95 will be payable on ac-
tors and also by millions on BBC ceptance.
when it was presented by Rachel Following huge demand for tick-
de Thame on Gardener’s World. ets last year an extra date is provi-
With Spring soon to arrive, a
garden makeover might be in or- sionally planned for 27 August.
The show title will be announced
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