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NEW! Growbag cradle to Master Garden Two charities to benefit from West open gardens
boost your tomato crop Machinery Organisers of the 11th West Swindon Open Gardens on Saturday 15
and Sunday 16 June have decided to support the Prospect Hospice and
Sales, Service, Repair Swindon’s youth support and mentoring charity SMASH.
Over the last ten years the event has raised £20,000 for Breakthrough
Briggs & Stratton, Breast Cancer.
John Deere, Stihl, Organisers are keen to increase the number of gardens available to visit
Honda, Hayter over the weekend. Your garden does not have to be show quality; it’s an
and many more opportunity to demonstrate your green fingered enthusiasm for design and
Also planters, veggie beds, poultry We also service and repair growing plants. For details mail via www.westswindonopengardens.com
and pet housing any make of power tool
Handmade with pressure-treated
timber - built to last Collection & delivery service Butterflies & bees need all the help they can get
Can be made to measure Washout 2012 was the worst year for UK butterflies on record with 52 out
Competitively priced • Free local delivery Tel: 07522 282 188 of the 56 species monitored suffering declines, according to data gathered
Tel: Neil 01793 814068 www.mastergardenmachinery.com by the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS). Read more: www.
bit.ly/UK012butteflies

Justin Tomlinson MP, centre, at Peatmoor Glades in February with, from left,
Swindon Commercial Services rangers Linda Knight and David Boase, Shaw
councillor Nick Martin, former Swindon Council leader Rod Bluh and Peatmoor
Community Woodland Group member Mark Clayborough
Come and plant wildflowers at Peatmoor Glades
Sunday 5 May, 11am to 1pm. For details mail: [email protected]
Bee populations are also under MP Justin Tomlinson supported the
enormous pressure from environmen- Friends of the Earth Bee Cause which
tal changes, use of agricultural chemi- is pressing government to do more to
cals and electro-magnetic signals. arrest the decline in UK bee numbers.
UNITS 19-20 KENDRICK INDUSTRIAL ESTATE The late arrival of warmer weather See: www.bit.ly/JTbeecause
SWINDON WILTS SN2 2DU in 2013 has not helped signs of recov- Keen butterfly enthusiast John
ery. These essential pollinating insects Ball from Grange Park has come up
TEL: 01793 536784 need everybody to help improve the with lots of ideas on how to create
quality of their environment. Gardens butterfly and bee friendly habitats in
don’t have to be neat and tidy - even your own garden. Read what he has
SANSUM SAND & GRAVEL SUPPLY TO THE the smallest corner of a garden left un- to say at www.bit.ly/jballfab
GENERAL PUBLIC AND TRADE CUSTOMERS kempt and planted with wildflowers See also: www.bit.ly/plantame-
will provide a place for insects to feed. adow and Swindon Urban Meadows:
BRICKS, In late February North Swindon www.bit.ly/swin-u-m
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