I headed to Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire on 1 April to launch the Community Gardening scheme and Grow Your Own Project with the Royal Horticultural Society and Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation.
For the project, a community garden involving local schoolchildren has been created in the town centre. It will provide a place for workshops to boost the gardening skills of everyone in the community, from young to old. Visit their website here: www.letchworth.com/rhs
Thanks to everyone who came along on the night to the Spirella ballroom to see my talk on the Magic of Community Gardening.
I hope I showed you the power and importance of plants not only to help build communities but to bring about health and well-being too. I also looked at wildlife and biodiversity, as well as how to enhance our existing spaces visually and environmentally.
I want to inspire people to get involved with community gardening projects. They are a fantastic way to bring people together and rebuild community bonds as neighbours share plants and advice and get growing together.
I blogged all the way through the grand reveal, judging and awards ceremony of this year’s Young Gardeners of the Year competition at The Ideal Home Show!
Find out who won what and see all the behind the scenes snaps!
I’m always telling people to have fun with their containers. So, live on stage at this year’s Ideal Home Show, I’m putting my money where my mouth is!
I will be taking part in a daily challenge creating beautiful displays of plants – in weird and wacky containers. And the best bit? YOU get to choose them for me! The funnier and crazier the better!
I will then plant up as many of your suggestions as possible in five minutes in front of a live audience at the Ideal Home Show, all while presenting tips and advice on how to choose exciting planting combinations and recycle unwanted objects as plant containers.