Hiking, Walking & Rambling

Cheshire Wildlife Trust’s first garden at the RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park has received a further boost with the news that Grosvenor Garden Centre and Barclays Bank will supply sponsorship and volunteers to ensure a medal-winning entry. The ‘Simply Victorian’ garden will showcase the Victorian naturalists who left an indelible legacy of wildlife protection in this country.

Barclays Bank will be providing staff volunteers from Gadbrook Park Contact Centre, Northwich to help build and break-down the garden at this year’s RHS Show. Staff will also be looking after some of the plants that will feature in the garden during the lead up to the event. Barclays have worked closely with Cheshire Wildlife Trust in a voluntary capacity for several years, will also help finance the garden’s hard landscaping.

Sarah Noden of Barclays Bank comments, “Through our active volunteer programme we have worked with Cheshire Wildlife Trust for several years and are really proud to be a part of this project. The volunteers will get a real sense of achievement in seeing the garden develop and eventually go to a good home”

Grosvenor Garden Centre who has also worked with Cheshire Wildlife Trust for a number of years will supply the plants for the garden. Claire Binns of Grosvenor Garden Centre comments, “We are delighted to be involved with Cheshire Wildlife Trust’s Simply Victorian show garden. The garden will help to promote the region’s wildlife, whilst educating visitors in the vital role our Victorian ancestors played in the promotion and preservation of wildlife.”

Sue Tatman of Cheshire Wildlife Trust adds, “During the Victorian era many new garden plants were introduced from all over the world. Ferns, like those displayed in the Cheshire Wildlife Trust garden, were a fashionable gardening novelty newly imported from New Zealand. The Victorians were great collectors of native species, especially ferns and orchids, and in some areas their over-collection led to local extinctions. Of course, all our ferns will be nursery grown helping to protect wild populations.”

For further information on Cheshire Wildlife Trust visit the website at www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/cheshire or telephone 01270 610 180.

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