Celebrities join ‘STRICTLY COME GARDENING’

for Mid Sussex

 

 

Strictly Come Gardening, Haywards Heath’s new community “everything you wanted to know about gardening but were afraid to ask” Show takes place on Saturday 14^th April 2012. To be held in the Orchards Shopping Centre, there will be lots to see, experts to speak to, plants to buy and green fingers to be inspired. 

 

A super knowledgeable expert panel will be on hand to answer your questions; anything from what’s the ideal planting scheme for a window box to can I grow vegetables on my balcony.  The panel will be led by Jean Griffin, BBC Radio Sussex’s gardening guru, with Mark Wasilewski, Head Gardener at St James Park and adviser on the design on the Olympics Park. They will be joined by Jim Buttress, a former chairman of the Royal Horticultural Society and a judge at the Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Shows and Tom Brown, Head Gardener at Parham House. Andy Stevens, Head Gardener at Borde Hill will be adding his advice.

 

Local horticultural societies will be on hand with their specialist local knowledge as well as plants to sell.  They will be joined by experts from the Hardy Plant Society, as well as from Heaselands Gardens who will also represent conservation group Plant Heritage. The students from Oathall School Farm will be there too and Mid Sussex nurseries coming to Strictly include High Beeches Nurseries who will tell visitors how not to be an azalea failure or a rhododendron rookie!

 

Ian Goodridge, Manager at The Orchards, says “As a nation, we’re all mad on our gardens. From April to October we furiously plant, weed, water, visit spectacular gardens and rifle garden centres.  Strictly Come Gardening is a new, unique event for Mid Sussex where we can all learn and have some fun – such as finding out if you need a partner to do companion planting!” 

 

Celebrities join ‘STRICTLY COME GARDENING’ for Mid Sussex

 

Jean Griffin comments: "Strictly Come Gardening is truly an exciting and  unique event and I'm delighted to be part of it - it's such a good  idea!  It's an opportunity for all gardeners or garden lovers to meet the experts and find out just why your shrubs have succumbed or how to revive your roses.  And then, of course, we can talk about how to heel in rhubarb or grow strawberries or whether you need a partner for companion planting!  Come along - it's going to be fun!"

 

If you, or your school, society or organisation would like to be involved, do call Ruth de Mierre on 01444 453399 or email ruth@i-dmc.co.uk.