11 February: St Neots Author Gets Crafty at Waterstones
The Chelsea award-winning garden designer based the book on ideas she developed when gardening with her own three children, Ava (8), Oscar (6) and Archie (3) as well as the junior gardeners from Hail Weston Pre-School where Dawn runs a gardening... The demonstration at Waterstones will cover some of the simpler indoor projects in the book such as making sprouting birthday cards, pressed flower placemats and jam jar garden lights. She writes on family gardening and garden design for the Royal Horticultural Society teaches children gardening skills, such as seed growing, the germination process and the thinning out of crops. There will also be the chance to look at some of the other book ideas from micro leaf farms to miniature gardens as well a having copies of the book signed by Dawn on the day. Creating the projects in this book, children will learn to sow, grow and care for their seeds, as well as maintain new plants in a little plot of their own. Step-by-step projects range from planting herb pots, making bird scarers and herbal bath bags to creating a vegetable garden in a wheelbarrow, an insect hotel where you can give your local mini-beasts somewhere to shelter in style, a climbing bean...
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The Royal Horticultural Society's official website ticket office.Here you can buy tickets for various upcoming shows, as well as the Chelsea flower show, including:Hampton Court Palace Flower ShowRHS Flower Show Tatton Park Hampton Court Palace Flower Show Charity Gala Preview RHS at the Inner Temple, London Ticket section of the website (*
The Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show is fast approaching with great displays expected between the 24th to the 28th May 2011. The five day event is held in the Royal Hospital Chelsea grounds in London
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