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We have full liability insurance 023 8104 0185 07770 792361 clean-u-up@hotmail.com We provide one of the best professional Carpet & Fabric cleaning Systems Local Gardeners Scoop Top Awards at the BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair at Beaulieu BBC TV gardening presenter, Frances Tophill, presented awards to design teams and horticulture students behind some show-stopping gardens and displays at the recent BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair at Beaulieu. Winner of the Spring Fair’s Best Showcase Garden and a Platinum Award was Nordic Retreat by e Landscape Service, based in Southampton. Designed by Luke Mills, the stylish, minimalist garden was designed to o er a calming space to relax, unwind and rejuvenate, providing temporary respite from the urban environment. It featured neutral colours, planting features to create dappled shade, and natural hard landscaping materials. Assessors were multi award-winning garden designers and horticultural experts, Robin Templar Williams, Lucy Bravington and Professor David Stevens. Chair of assessors, Robin Templar Williams, said: “The Landscape Service designed the perfect Nordic retreat, with a hue of greens and Pine as one of its principal species. With less than three days to build a fully functioning garden, we were impressed with the authenticity and quality of the garden which included a space for yoga on the deck.” Border was inspired by a poem from J.R.R. Tolkien’s e Fellowship of the Ring, and featured plants grown at Furzey Gardens, a stepping stone path, and a grand chair carved from the trunk of an old Elm tree, and of course it wouldn’t be a Furzey Garden without the addition of a hidden fairy door! e Beautiful Borders competition is a highlight at all BBC Gardeners’ World Events and is designed to provide achievable inspiration for smaller gardens and tricky spaces. Entrants take on the challenge of packing compact 9m2 plots with imaginative planting and creative design features. is year’s theme was ‘My Garden Escape’. Spring Fair award assessors for the Beautiful Borders were Ian Hodgson, editor of Garden News, and acclaimed Hampshire garden designers, Anita Foy from Anita Foy Garden Design, and Richard Barnard from Kings Oak Landscapes. Andrew Bentley, Estates Manager at Minstead Trust, said: “We are delighted for all the people that we support that have worked so hard to create this garden. It has created a real sense of purpose and shows what people with learning disabilities can achieve when they have support and encouragement.” Reviewing all Award entries at the Spring Fair, BBC TV gardening presenter Frances Tophill, said: “I’m hugely impressed with the talent involved and the hard work that has gone into creating these wonderful gardens and displays, with every award richly deserved. I have no doubt that they will inspire thousands of people over the Spring Fair weekend to try something new or different in their garden, veg patch or window box. Whether you’re new to gardening or a green-fingered expert, it’s a great time of year to make garden plans for the summer ahead. The BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair really is the perfect place for ideas to blossom and grow.” e date has already been set for next year’s BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair, which will once again be hosted at Beaulieu from 3rd to 5th May 2024. Spring Fair Officially Opened by Lord Montagu, Frances Tophill and Kevin Smith Best Beautiful Border, Furzey Gardens Minstead Trust Winner Luke Mills, Director of e Landscape Service, said: “The Nordic Retreat is our first show garden so I couldn’t be happier to have won this award. Inspired by my Nordic heritage, I wanted the garden to have a therapeutic effect, providing calm and respite from busy life. It’s been a real team effort by gardeners, landscapers, suppliers and sponsors, and I’m over the moon.” Best Beautiful Border and Platinum Award winner was ‘Not all those who wander are lost’ by Furzey Gardens and Minstead Trust who provide training and work experience for people with learning disabilities. e Who would have thought, re ects Timothy Warren, that a er only one year of playing the violin together at St Andrew’s Church Centre Dibden Purlieu, they would be giving their rst concert at a private venue in Totton? Fun on the Fiddle is the brainchild of Timothy Warren, a well-established violin and trumpet player and teacher of many di erent instruments, who lives near Southampton. His vision is to bring a group of adult beginners together who share a love of music and are willing to try. He insists no previous knowledge of playing any instrument or being able to read music is required. You don’t even need to purchase your own Fiddle. Timothy has plenty available to let you take home. And he is right, echo his students; “Even after the first lesson you have a feeling of achievement and the knowledge that you have played something. The empathy is on having fun and becoming a group where everyone encourages each other”, said one of the members. Why don’t you go along and try it yourself, call 07733 085290 for more details. FUN ON THE FIDDLE
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