The excellent learning garden in Beaulieu was opened officially on Friday 20th June by local 
media champion
of wildlife and conservation, Chris Packham.
Thankfully, dignitaries were thin on the ground, the 'do' was for the people whose input transformed the concept into reality. Designers, builders, diggers, and planters, many of them volunteers were thanked most sincerely by Patrick Fairweather and it was a great relief to all that the rain held of.
In just a few months a sea of mud has been transformed into a fine example of a well managed, atrractive and highly productive garden. Julian, the gardener has worked wonders in getting rapid results from a 
heavy clay soil.
If you can, you should pay the garden a visit, you can find out more from the Fairweathers web site
I'm not a gardener, but I'm fairly certain bananas are not a common crop in the southern UK. Is that really a banana hanging in the background of the last photo, and if so, why?
Hope all is well that side of the deep blue!
Posted by: Neil Bradbury | June 29, 2008 at 02:15 PM