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Garden Design Events 2017

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Here are some events, courses and volunteering days that I have attended over the years:

Garden Media Guild Visits

– Parham House and Gardens Tour 2019
– Leonardslee Gardens Tour 2019

Garden Volunteering

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019
– The RHS Bridgewater Garden, by Tom Stuart Smith. 2 days garden query support
– The Back to Nature Garden, by The Duchess of Cambridge, 1 day crowd control (and sorting out Marshals!)

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018
– The Weston Garden (RHS Pavilion Feature), by Tom Stuart Smith. 2 days garden query support.

RHS Hampton Court Flower Show 2018
– Grow Your Own Garden with Raymond Blanc. 1 day garden query support.
– Piet Oudolf wild meadow borders. Half day garden query support.
– Evolve through the roots of time exhibit. Half day garden query support

Courses / Workshops

Good Planting (Study Day) – Fergus Garrett
– Great Dixter (near Hastings) 2017

Understanding Disability in Garden Design – THRIVE
–
Battersea Park (London)  2017

Gardens Illustrated Festival Talks 2017
– Westonbirt School, Tetbury, Gloucestershire

Cleve West
 (Healing Gardens)

James Alexander Sinclair (Sex Death & Gardens)
Tom Stuart-Smith (In Search of Paradise)
Nigel Dunnett (Layers of Colour: Creating Beautiful Long-Season Plantings)

Succession Planting in the Mixed Border (Study Day) – Fergus Garrett
– Great Dixter (near Hastings) 2017

The principles of good garden design: A masterclass with James Alexander-Sinclair
– Kings Cross, London at The Guardian 2017

Getting the Garden Ready (Study Day) – Fergus Garrett
– Great Dixter (near Hastings) 2017

Behind the Scenes Tour – Rachael Dodd
– Great Dixter (near Hastings) 2016

Design Your Own Garden – 10 Week Course 2015 
– Merrist Wood College, Guildford

 

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Chair of #Dorking Allotment Assoc and Westcott Gardeners' Club | Grower of 677lbs pumpkins | 27 yrs in digital | Surviving Hodgkin Lymphoma

Really chuffed to have raised £1000 for my hospit Really chuffed to have raised £1000 for my hospital's cancer fund with the delivery of Abdul the pumpkin (so named after my haematology consultant) to the generous folks at @tulleyspumpkins - especially during chemotherapy treatment myself AND lymphoma awareness month.
#giantpumpkingrower #giantveg #lymphomawarenessmonth
Bought a couple of new roses today. Both 'Silver A Bought a couple of new roses today. Both 'Silver Anniversary', lovely fragrance. 25% off at Waterperry Gardens. Partly to cheer myself up after dropping eldest off at Birmingham University at 7am 😥
The guys at @kendallcars_ have also been amazing w The guys at @kendallcars_ have also been amazing with the charity giant pumpkin project, gifting me their wonderful 4x4 pickup for the weekend in order to get the big pumpkin down to @tulleysfarm. Couldn't have done it without them OR @daniel_brown_horseman and Hugh Broom the Dorking farmer.
#lymphomawarenessmonth
#giantpumpkin #Dorking ##surreyhills #pumpkingrower #allotment
Abdul the giant pumpkin has reached his forever ho Abdul the giant pumpkin has reached his forever home at @tulleyspumpkins - now his day job begins entertaining the masses through October and Halloween. Huge thanks to @tulleysfarm for their £500 charity donation to East Surrey hospital cancer fund. 

It's been nice to grow a giant pumpkin despite being on chemotherapy treatment, and find a way to give back. Lymphoma is the most common form of blood cancer and September is #lymphomaawarenessmonth
#tulleysfarm #pumpkingrower #giantpumpkins
Not enough dahlias to merit show entries this autu Not enough dahlias to merit show entries this autumn but a nice bunch for the living room table.
#dahlias
Proud of MrsGrow for her Autumn Wreath 1st (and be Proud of MrsGrow for her Autumn Wreath 1st (and best in section), 1st in the photography, 1st in the printed wrapping paper and 2nd in the water colour. All in all, a trophy for handicraft points too.
#westcottflowershow #flowershow
End of the village flower show. Tomorrow the pumpk End of the village flower show.
Tomorrow the pumpkin goes to @tulleyspumpkins 
#giantpumpkins
Subbed the beans for 5 cherry tomatoes in the end, Subbed the beans for 5 cherry tomatoes in the end, didn't have much choice. Not much left growing that isn't burned to a crisp. 3rd place. I'll take that.
#allotment #eatwhatyougrow
No prizes for a 150kg pumpkin (expected as it's no No prizes for a 150kg pumpkin (expected as it's not a perfect specimen), but I am the onion king again 💪 1st in over 3 inches and under 3 inches.
Yes errr, I'm not sure those beans are going to cu Yes errr, I'm not sure those beans are going to cut in the the veg show collection 😂 but it's those or green cherry tomatoes 😂
#flowershow
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