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Bridgemere Garden World is on the A51 about 2 km south of the village. With a total area of 52 hectares (130 acres), it is one of the largest garden centres in Europe, and receives around 1.8 million annual visitors. [22] [23] [24] The garden centre sells over five thousand plant varieties, most of which are grown locally, as well as garden ...
A garden centre (Commonwealth English spelling; U.S. nursery or garden center) is a retail operation that sells plants and related products for the domestic garden as its primary business. It is a development from the concept of the retail plant nursery but with a wider range of outdoor products and on-site facilities.
John Ravenscroft (horticulturalist), British founder of Bridgemere Garden World; John Ravenscroft (composer) (c. 1665 – 1697), English violinist and composer; John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, English radio broadcaster known as John Peel; John Stark Ravenscroft (1772–1830), American bishop of the Episcopal Church
Wyevale Garden Centres (formerly The Garden Centre Group) was a British chain of garden centres. It was the largest garden centre operator in the United Kingdom, with 154 locations following its acquisition of the Blooms of Bressingham chain in February 2007. [ 1 ]
It had been the Northern Horticultural Society's trial ground and display garden since they bought it in 1949. In 2013, more than 1.63 million people visited the four gardens. [1] In 2015 the RHS announced plans for a fifth garden at Worsley New Hall, Greater Manchester, under the name RHS Garden Bridgewater. [20] The garden opened in May 2021 ...
She has presented on BBC’s Gardeners' World and various other TV and radio programmes and is a past winner of the Garden Writers’ Guild Radio Broadcasting Award. In 1993, Walkden's book, The Houseplant Almanac , was published, and in 2007 A Year in Christine's Garden – The Secret Diary of a Garden Lover was published to accompany the ...
The Hampton Court Garden Festival (formerly The Hampton Court Flower Show) is an annual British flower show, held in early July of each year. The show is run by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) at Hampton Court Palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The show features show gardens, floral marquees and pavilions, talks, and ...
The Sackler Garden, designed by Dan Pearson sits at the centre of the courtyard, replacing the knot garden, and the Museum's front garden is designed by Christopher Bradley-Hole. In 2006, Christopher Woodward, formerly director of the Holburne Museum in Bath, Somerset , was appointed as the director of the Garden Museum.