We have a winner!
The weekend was very busy at our Clyst St. Mary garden centre. We held a special event - a Water Garden Weekend. The event kicked off on Saturday 17th June with special guest Amanda Patton. Amanda offered customers invaluable advice on garden design and we were quite in awe of her many talents! Amanda is not only a garden designer who has won an RHS Silver-gilt medal at Chelsea but she regularly presents on BBC Somerset Sound, contributes to Pond and Gardening magazine, illustrates in many of Alan Titchmarsh's and Ground Force's books PLUS she was RHS garden photographer of 2003!
Amanda was joined by Steve Wilson from Chy and Goi plants. Steve supplies our pond plants and offered expert advice to everyone.
On Sunday we welcomed Kate Sandel from Devon Wildlife Trust and Dr. Pete Falloon from the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research. Kate offered everyone great advice on attracting wildlife into gardens and she planted a beautiful water barrel with wildlife attracting water plants - we even had a guest appearance from our resident frog shown above. The water barrel was a prize in our competition and the winner is Mrs Carpenter from Exeter who will be collecting her prize tomorrow.
St. Bridget Nurseries is pleased to be a Devon Wildlife Trust approved garden centre. Our staff understand how to create wildlife gardens and all our approved plants and products proudly display the Devon Wildlife Trust logo.
FINALLY, our great weekend finished with an excellent talk by Dr. Pete Falloon. Pete talked about how climate change is likely to impact our gardens here in the South West and it raised some very interesting questions. Fundamentally, plants are going to have to be robust enough to cope with hotter summers and warmer wetter winters. Pete finished his talk with showing some of the plant varieties that we can expect to see more and less of.
If you are interested in any of these topics then please get in touch.