It's time to plant hanging baskets, pots and tubs…so get colourful in your garden with Holme for Gardens this summer. . .
Let us show you just how easy and satisfying it is to plant up simple and beautiful displays.
With advice on how to ensure your chosen displays keep looking good throughout the season, visit Holme for Gardens to select the perfect plants for summer colour in your baskets or herb container.
Come and see our fantastic selection of container plants, planters and baskets with everything you need and helpful advice to plan, plant and keep them at their best all summer long.
No lottery here! Holme for Gardens owners Liz & Simon Goldsack and Sonia McNeill, manager of the Orchard Tea Room, with Alan Dedicoat, Radio 2 presenter and famous lucky balls voice of the National Lottery: (Liz, Alan, Simon and Sonia).
The Orchard Tea Room at Holme for Gardens was given a High Commendation and voted best runner up in a glittering awards ceremony held in London.
In recognition of its contribution to the development of a new service to customers at Holme for Gardens , the Orchard had been selected as one of six finalists by the judges of the Garden Retail Awards in its category for 'best practice in design, innovation and environmental standards'.
Located in an area of 'Outstanding National Beauty', Holme for Gardens' new tea room had to meet stringent planning regulations and was constructed in accordance with environmental requirements to ensure it was energy efficient and blended effortlessley to its surroundings. Garden centre owners Simon and Liz Goldsack are delighted with the success of their new tea room which was officially opened in June by Edward Fox OBE a regular customer at the centre.
Sponsored by The Horticulture Trade Association, the annual Garden Retail Awards attract entries from garden centres across the country. The awards are highly coveted and are the most prestigious within the gardening business. The judges agreed that this year the standard of entries was exceptional and the highest ever across all its 17 categories.
Test our Expertise with your Gardening Questions on April Fools Day !
Come along to our fundraising Gardener’s Question Time and enjoy a great evening with our our panel of experts challenging them with your gardening questions. Let us see how many of you can fool them!
Tickets are on sale in the Holme Garden shop or you can reserve them by phone and come in to collect them. The tickets are £10.00 which include a ploughmans supper, with all proceeds raised from ticket sales and Weldmar raffle being donated to the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust.
We hope many of you will support us and are looking forward to the evening being lots of fun and a great success and the first of many such evenings planned for 2010.
Farm Shop Open
As Usual - Orders
For Christmas Now
Being Taken [-]
FARM SHOP OPEN AS USUAL AT HOLME FOR GARDENS
ORDERS FOR CHRISTMAS NOW BEING TAKEN
We are delighted to announce that Goldy's Farm shop at Holme for Gardens, has a new name and new owners in perfect time for Christmas. Simon and Liz Goldsack have purchased the business and have renamed it Holme Farm Shop.
Under its new management and name, Holme Farm Shop will provide an outlet for fresh, local farm produce, supporting Purbeck growers and offering customers the opportunity of reducing their food miles by buying fresh, locally produced food.
“Offering a farm shop to customers is a natural progression for our business and fits perfectly with our existing Garden Centre, Pick Your Own Fruit Farm and the nationally acclaimed Orchard Tea Room” says Simon. “There is a growing market of customers who wish to know exactly where their food has come from, and we are keen to meet this demand. We are in a fortunate position to be able to take on this farm shop at a time when our business is growing from strength to strength” he adds.
We would like to take this opportunity to reassure customers that Holme Farm Shop will continue to trade as normal in the run up to the busy Christmas season and orders are now being taken for all your Christmas meats and local Free Range Turkeys.
If you are interested in becoming a potential supplier of Holme Farm Shop, please call Simon on 01929 554716.
HOLME AND AWAY - LEWIS SELECTED FOR UNDER 15's REGIONAL TEAM TOUR OF WEST INDIES [-]
HOLME AND AWAY - LEWIS SELECTED FOR UNDER 15's REGIONAL TEAM TOUR OF WEST INDIES
Talented wicketkeeper and batsman Lewis McManus is all set for the trip of a lifetime to the West Indies this Easter to play cricket. Lewis, the son of our electrician Andy McManus, is delighted to have been selected to play in the South & West Region's Under Fifteen team two week tour and leaves on March 30th .
The players will enjoy 9 games in total visiting home teams in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana. The official tour is fully endorsed by the England and Wales Cricket Board and by the English Schools' Cricket Association.Holme for Gardens is delighted to help support Lewis with sponsorship.
Looking forward to the tour Lewis said: "I can't wait to play on good dry pitches and meet the boys from the West Indies teams, it will give me some great experience of different wickets in the Caribbean."
Lewis, who attends ClayesmoreSchool, was also selected last autumn to play for the MCC school's team at Lords.He has been a member of the county squad since the age of 10, a member of the South & West of England regional players, his local club at Broadstone and is also member of the Dorset emerging player programme.
Simon said: "We believe Lewis could well become one of the top up-and-coming cricketers in his age group across the whole of the UK.Coming from a family of keen sportsmen, his grandfather having played football for Bournemouth FC and his father Andy McManus currently plays for Dorchester FC, we are sure Lewis will go far and take great pleasure in supporting him in his sporting achievements. We wish him all the best this Easter on the under 15's West Indies tour."
Come and get your tree or reserve one now to ensure it arrives in top condition for Christmas.
We can help you choose the perfect tree - FREE delivery, collection and recycling of your tree in our local delivery zones 1 and 2.
Festival of Fun at The Orchard Tea Room - Oct 09 [-]
Festival of Fun at The Orchard Tea Room
This Autumn we are thrilled to be hosting two films as part of the Purbeck Film Festival. Organisers visited the Orchard tea room and were so impressed with the new building and its relaxing ambience, that it was agreed it would make a delightful new venue.
We will be showing two wonderful films of international acclaim. An optional ploughman’s supper will be served before the film on each day at 6pm with the film following.
Tickets are on sale now at the garden centre priced £5 for the film and £5 for the supper.
Wed 28th Oct – Oscar winning, The Constant Gardener (2005) Thurs 29th Oct– Clive Owen in Greenfingers (2000)
Tickets on sale now £5.00 for film only (7.30pm) £10.00 film & ploughmans
supper (6.00pm supper)
Garden lover Jane Atkinson from Swanage won herself an hour on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square in the Antony Gormley ‘One and Other’ summer exhibition. She was one of 2,400 winners selected from over 32,000 entries and as her local garden centre we were delighted when we could help support Jane by donating one of our Topiary ball sculptures for her trimming demonstration.
This summer, sculptor Antony Gormley invited people from across the UK to help create an astonishing living monument. The exhibition opened on July 6th and runs until October 14th giving the general public the opportunity to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth, a space normally reserved for statues of Kings and Generals. They will become an image of themselves, and a representation of the whole of humanity. You can watch Jane and other winners by visiting www.oneandother.co.uk.
No lottery here! Holme for Gardens owners Liz & Simon Goldsack and Sonia McNeill, manager of the Orchard Tea Room, with Alan Dedicoat, Radio 2 presenter and famous lucky balls voice of the National Lottery: (Liz, Alan, Simon and Sonia).
The Orchard Tea Room at Holme for Gardens was given a High Commendation and voted best runner up in a glittering awards ceremony held in London.
In recognition of its contribution to the development of a new service to customers at Holme for Gardens , the Orchard had been selected as one of six finalists by the judges of the Garden Retail Awards in its category for 'best practice in design, innovation and environmental standards'.
Located in an area of 'Outstanding National Beauty', Holme for Gardens' new tea room had to meet stringent planning regulations and was constructed in accordance with environmental requirements to ensure it was energy efficient and blended effortlessley to its surroundings. Garden centre owners Simon and Liz Goldsack are delighted with the success of their new tea room which was officially opened in June by Edward Fox OBE a regular customer at the centre.
Sponsored by The Horticulture Trade Association, the annual Garden Retail Awards attract entries from garden centres across the country. The awards are highly coveted and are the most prestigious within the gardening business. The judges agreed that this year the standard of entries was exceptional and the highest ever across all its 17 categories.
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TOPIARY TRIMMING IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE
