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Manor Garden Centre Show off your
Cheney Manor, Swindon garden talent
01793 526691 West Swindon Open Garden
Open 7 days a week Father’s Day weekend
19 & 20 June
If you’re willing to open your garden
Quality TGB garden to the public in aid of Breakthrough
Breast Cancer, mail Lesley Dredge
buildings for any situation at: [email protected]
Bespoke sizes available A splash of colour at the open gardens
last year
Base laying
& installation Make a difference with wildfl owers
available
www.conservatorycentres.co.uk ‘Butterfl y pub’ delivered to your door
Wildlife habitats are under threat from housing development and modern
agricultural practices, but Swindon Wildfl ower Nursery is trying to do
www.acerpaving.co.uk something to prevent the loss by encouraging householders to create
places in their own gardens to encourage butterfl y and bee survival.
Not only does the nursery offer nity Gardens at Manor Garden
advice on how to turn part of a Centre, where Swindon Wildfl ower
garden into a wildlife area, for £10 Nursery is based, any Wednesday
including delivery, they’ll sell you a from 10.30am to 12.30pm until
‘butterfl y pub.’ This wooden plant- October for advice and to buy
er contains a dozen wildfl owers for wildfl owers. Twigs is also open on
the patio or a corner to become a Mondays and Friday 10.30am to
haven for butterfl ies and bees. 3.30pm for purchases. Or call 692596
Drop into the TWIGS Commu- to place an order.
West Swindon community wildfl ower plant in May to boost
blossoms for bees and butterfl ies
On Sunday 8 May, 10.30am to 12.30pm, Peatmoor Community Woodland
Group, Swindon Wildfl ower Nursery and Swindon Flowers & Butterfl y
Project are holding a community wildfl ower plant at Peatmoor Glades.
All you have to do is turn up with
gloves and a trowel and add to the
fl ower collection. Some nettle clear-
ing might be necessary.
Contribute 30 minutes or a couple
of hours to help make the area more
attractive to insects, butterfl ies and
bees.
UNITS 19-20 KENDRICK INDUSTRIAL ESTATE Peatmoor Glades are adjacent to
SWINDON WILTS SN2 2DU the west end of Peatmoor Way on the
south side of the lagoon. For direc-
TEL: 01793 536784 tions mail: [email protected] or Cowslips in bloom at the glades
call 608840 (weekdays).
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