It’s been a tense week in the garden centres as we’ve had judges in from the Garden Centre Association inspecting every last bauble in our three Christmas displays for the annual awards, which are due to be announced next week. The team worked hard to ensure every bauble was sparking, every light was twinkling and that the displays looked more dazzling than they have ever looked before – keep your fingers crossed and check back next week to see how we got on.

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Also this week we’ve had a visit from 54 members of New Milton and Barton-on-Sea Flower Club. They had a talk from Tony Das, Assistant Manager of the house-plants department, on ‘House-plants for Christmas’, they had lunch and toured the Christmas displays – there were a few funny noises coming from displays so it certainly sounded like they enjoyed themselves.

Next on the agenda is the Light up a Life event at Castle Gardens on Wednesday 30th November from 6.00pm, it is free to come along and six trees will be lit to remember loved ones and to raise funds for the Weldmar Hospice Trust so do pop by.

Mike