Fairweathers Beaulieu

  Fairweathers Beaulieu 
  Originally uploaded by AtWaG

There's a cloud  of doom and gloom around Garden Centres just now but you can't say Fairweathers of Beaulieu aren't giving it their best shot. I took a look around their Garden Centre last week and was impressed by their innovative display of re-cycling and local materials. These sculptures were made of  waste fibreglass from a local boat yard and the mosaic effect was cleverly created from plastic plant tags stuck on with powerful adhesive. The surrounding drift of pebbles and grasses gave a pleasing maritime effect and created an oasis away from the 'hard sell' of Garden Centre plant benches.
Within the same area their 'plants for a purpose' displays were pleasingly arranged on benches supported by bales of New Forest heather.
Fairweathers current project is even more ambitious - a large community veg garden for the village of Beaulieu - I saw the bare bones of the garden with the very first plants going in.....more of this to follow - you will be impressed by the scale and vision of the project.

Comments

[LetsPlantLetsPlant]

Great post!!

[David Aylieff-sansom]

Hi Richard
Thanks for the mention of the garden centre and learning garden. Things are progressing well. have posted a few more pictures of the site and the garden is now open to the public to view what is going on.
Thank you.