March 13th: Cadbury Garden & Leisure Centre, Smallway,

Congresbury,

North Somerset  BS49

5AA. Tel: 01934 875700. www.g-l.co.uk/static/cadbury.html

BBC Gardeners' Question Time panellist and BBC

Gardeners' World columnist, Pippa Greenwood will be visiting Cadbury Garden

& Leisure on March 13th 2012 from 11am until 3.30pm on Garden

Re-leaf Day.

 

Pippa Greenwood, the popular gardening broadcaster and

writer has teamed up with Stewart, the market leader in quality garden products

to launch an eight location tour starting on March 1st at Stewart's,

encouraging people to grow their own produce. Pippa has signed a three-year

partnership deal with Stewart's and they will work together promoting the

understanding and knowledge of growing fruit and vegetables.

Pippa will be demonstrating how easy it is to grow

from seed, explaining and demonstrating propagation. She will also show how to

pot a plant using different sized pots as well as giving a master class on

making small and versatile growing beds from large pots, troughs and hanging

baskets. Her enthusiasm is sure to give confidence to all.

 

While

at Cadbury Garden & Leisure, Pippa will spend the day judging a planting

workshop which the local schools will be participating in. The day will be

broken up when she will be conducting a Grow your Own Talk from 12pm-1pm, where

her wealth of gardening knowledge will appeal to novices and garden

enthusiasts.

9.30

- 11.30 am           School planting

workshop

11.15

- 11.30 am         Judging with Pippa

11.30

- 12.00 pm        Coffee Break

12.00

- 1.00 pm          Grow your Own Talk

1.00

- 3.00 pm            School planting

workshop

3.00

– 3.15pm             Judging with Pippa

Pippa's visit to Cadbury will coincide with Garden Re-Leaf day, the

gardening equivalent of Comic Relief Day. This event is dedicated to raising

funds for the charity Green Fingers which creates magical gardens for

children's hospices as well as encouraging customers to roll up their sleeves

and get involved.  Stewart will be giving

away seed trays to be used by Garden Centres up and down the country in what is

set to be one of the Gardening events of the year.    

Pippa's

gardening credentials include a botanical degree and she has previously worked

with the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Wisley. A regular with Alan

Titchmarsh on BBC's Daytime Live, she's also presented BBC 2's Gardeners' World

and can be heard giving advice on BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time. She

writes for BBC Gardeners' World Magazine and 'NFU Countryside Magazine'.

The

dynamic partnership between Stewart and Pippa Greenwood is a potent

relationship between a top gardening product producer and one of the most

experienced and knowledgeable gardening minds in the country. Pippa will be

giving demonstrations using Stewart's durable and beautifully designed

products. There will be some fantastic grow your own products available as well

as some great offers.

Pippa's 'grow your own' branding will appear on

Stewart products, which are designed with all types of gardening in mind. From

water butts and composters for the more ambitious gardener to window sill

kitchen garden sets, ideal for encouraging green fingered children. New colour

propagators in lime and mocha are an added attraction.

 

Paul Butchers, Store Manager at Cadbury Garden & Leisure said: "We are delighted to welcome

Pippa to the store. Pippa is a trusted name within the garden industry and her

knowledge and expertise is second to none; the talk she is giving is an

absolute 'must-see' for anyone who is planning to 'grow their own' this coming

season. With Pippa involved, the first Garden Re-leaf day at Cadbury is sure to

be fun, exciting and a great success".

 

Pippa has her own blog on the Stewart website at: www.stewart-garden.com/pippa selling a wide range of Stewart products with

the 'grow your own' branding on her own website at www.pippagreenwood.com

 

The bestselling novelist of New Gardener and Gardening

Hints and Tips said she is very excited to be working with Stewart. "I'm

looking forward to chatting about grow your own with people, and using some of

Stewart's wonderful products. Stewart's product range demonstrates a real and

long-term commitment to the grow your own movement – something that everyone

knows I am passionate about."

 

 

Tour

details:

March 1st 3.00 pm-8.30 pm: Stewarts, Lyndhurst

Road, Christchurch, Dorset BH23 4SA. Tel 01425 272244. www.stewarts.co.uk

 

March 13th 11

am-3.30 pm:  Cadbury Garden & Leisure,

Smallway, Congresbury,

North Somerset  BS49 5AA. Tel: 01934

875700. www.g-l.co.uk/static/cadbury.html

 

March 24th

11.00 am- 3.00 pm: Scotsdale Nursery & Garden Centre, Cambridge Road, Great

Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB22 5JT. Tel 01223 842777. www.scotsdalegardencentre.co.uk

 

March 28th

12.00 pm-4.30 pm: Barton Grange Garden Centre, Garstang Road, Brock Preston,

Lancashire PR3 0BT. Tel 01995

642900. www.bartongrange.co.uk

 

March 29th 3.30pm-8.15pm:

Gordale Nurseries Ltd, Chester

High Road, Burton, South Wirral, 

Cheshire CH64 8TF. Tel 0151

336 2116. www.gordale.co.uk

 

April 5th

10am-2pm: Webbs, Wychbold, Droitwich, Worcestershire WR9 0DG. Tel 01527 860000.

www.info.webbsdirect.co.uk

 

April 13th

11am-3pm: Exeter Food Festival, Northernhay Gardens,

Exeter, EX4 3QE www.exeterfoodfestival.co.uk

 

May 13th

11am-3pm: Garden Pride Garden

Centre, Common Lane,

Ditchling,

West Sussex, BN6 8TP. Tel 01273 846844. www.garden-pride.com/index.php