Ness Botanic Gardens press release: Tuesday 17 July 2013
BBC Radio 4 Gardeners’ Question
Time (GQT) Summer Garden Party:
Saturday, 7th September 2013
“I had a wonderful time diagnosing plant problems.
It was my idea of heaven – a long queue of people armed with bags containing
all manner of sickly plants.”
...So Pippa Greenwood wrote
happily in her blog in Gardeners’ World Online last September about the BBC Radio 4 Gardener’s Question Time (GQT) Summer Garden Party! Now that may not exactly be your idea of heaven but Ness Gardens
certainly has a lot to offer the gardening and food lover at this year’s repeat
performance of the Summer Garden Party and we are aiming to beat the record
attendance of 2,000 guests which was Radio 4’s
biggest outdoor audience event last year.
All the usual suspects will be here including Bob
Flowerdew, Eric Robson, Matthew Biggs, Christine Walkden, Peter Gibbs, Matthew
Wilson, Bunny Guinness and Pippa Greenwood plus new faces James Wong and Carol
Baxter. As well as the two recordings for the popular programme, our own Ness
expert gardeners and those from GQT will be on hand to provide demonstrations
and give personal advice on your gardening dilemmas. Come and see cookery
demonstrations from Claire Lara, Masterchef winner 2010, Anju Chandna, North
Indian culinary specialist, Yasmin Limbert who was WI ‘Cook of the Year'
for 2011 and a quarter finalist in the BBC Great British
Bake Off and Malcolm Williams, local artisan baker; all will be using produce
grown by us at Ness this year.
As
Kevin Reid, Director at Ness Gardens put it "We are planning more
demonstrations, activities and stands than before and if early ticket sales are
anything to go by, it promises to be a huge success once more”. The fabulous specialist growers of the popular Plant Hunters’ Fair are
back so you can get going straight away with your newly acquired knowledge on what
to grow in your garden. You can meet our chickens and bees, take tours of our
splendid Gardens and enjoy Ness flavoured ice cream...now that’s more like
heaven isn’t it?
Tickets are priced at £8.50 each (no concessions)
and are available now via the Ness Botanic Gardens website (www.nessgardens.org.uk) so keep
watching our website to find out the latest news for this year’s event. Tickets
are limited so book now to avoid disappointment.
Notes to
editors
1.
Photos of last year’s BBC Radio 4 Gardeners’ Question Time Summer Garden
Party are attached with this release and should be attributed to Rainbow
Studios. All are labelled but any queries contact Tracey Crich on 07747 624471.
2.
Photo of this year’s food demonstrators pictured
with Rachael Saunders, our gardener who is going to make it all happen for
them! L-R – Anju Chandna, Claire Lara, Yasmin Limbert, Malcolm Williams and
Rachel Saunders, our gardener.
3.
About Ness Gardens
The Gardens were created in 1898 by Arthur Kilpin Bulley, a wealthy
cotton broker from Liverpool. Passionate about plants, he funded various plant
hunting expeditions to the Far East for hunters such as George Forrest whose
huge Pieris formosa ‘Forrestii’ from
China, can still be seen today. Bulley created a garden of the unusual and the
rare and shared it freely with his village neighbours. He also established the
renowned Bees Seeds company.
The Gardens were donated to the University of Liverpool in 1948 by
Bulley’s daughter. They now attract over 60,000 visitors a year; there are in
excess of 7,000 Friends of Ness Gardens who have provided financial support for
over fifty years and more than 200 volunteers work across the Gardens.
Course publicity in Wirral News June 2012
http://www.wirralnews.co.uk/entertainment-wirral/food-drink/2012/06/20/summer-sourdough-classes-from-little-eye-bakery-80491-31215677/
Feature in Cheshire Life 2012
Local food news on the web
http://www.wirralfood.org.uk/producers.html
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