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Schools and community groups growing mad for festival!

Schools and community groups across Hull and East Yorkshire are being invited to take part in an exciting new garden festival being organised by Heritage Landscape and Garden Centre, near Melton.

It’s hoped that with the help of the garden centre’s own team of experts, and local radio and TV personalities, entrants will be spurred on to produce some fantastic gardens, the theme of which is entirely their own interpretation of ‘Nature’s Finest’.

The event, the Yorkshire Garden Festival, is free to enter and is open to nurseries and schools, as well as local community groups.

A pallet will be left with the school entrants so their creations can be transported to the garden centre when ready. All community group entrants will have a plot available to them on site from the beginning of April.

They will then be judged by both the general public and a team of gardening experts over a series of dates throughout the festival, which starts on 30th April and runs until 29th August.

Each community garden will receive £500 worth of credit towards plants and materials, schools will each receive £100 towards their creation, and at the end of the festival there will be the chance to win The People’s Award.

Heritage Landscape Centre is one of Yorkshire’s premier landscaping companies with an award- winning coffee shop and restaurant. It hosts water features, garden buildings and endless amounts of inspiration!

Ian Ashbridge, the festival’s Creative Director, says of the inaugural festival:

“We are delighted with the response we have already had from schools and community groups across the area. We have wanted to work with the local community for some time now and already work with charities and find it so rewarding.

“We know that there is so much talent out there that remains untapped and unrecognised and so we decided to do something about it. We’ve got the facilities here and want to make the best use of them.

“There is nothing like this. In fact the nearest Garden Festival which runs along these lines is in Scotland so we would encourage everyone to get Hull and East Yorkshire firmly on the map.”

To find out more about how you can take part ring 01482 339311, email festival.office@yorkshiregardenfestival.co.uk or visit the festival website atwww.yorkshiregardenfestival.co.uk

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