Best In Garden http://www.bestingarden.co.uk Gardening vouchers, garden vouchers, discounts Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:52:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Win A Packet Of Carrot Seeds…. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BestInGarden/~3/nWLoXwvdTZo/ http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/win-a-packet-of-carrot-seeds/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:48:27 +0000 PeterTratt http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/?post_type=article_type&p=2439 Here’s a fun competition with the chance of winning a lovely packet of carrot seeds that you can sow into July. Entry is very easy, just add below a unique poem of your own creation that is up to six lines in length all about the humble carrot. You might like to feature how tasty, lovely, healthy they are or maybe how you don’t like carrots! The choice of content is yours, competition closes on 23rd June 2013. The featuring of entries is at the publishers discretion, good luck! Add your entry below.

]]> http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/win-a-packet-of-carrot-seeds/feed/ 0 http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/win-a-packet-of-carrot-seeds/ Help Save Britain’s Bees http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BestInGarden/~3/q9oLzTQe4Yo/ http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/help-save-britains-bees/#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:21:43 +0000 PeterTratt http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/?post_type=article_type&p=2425 The countries bees are dying out at an alarming rate and a huge reason for this is the loss of their natural habitat. There has been around a ninty seven percent loss of their grassland habitats in the past 60 years, but disaster can be averted.(image courtesy Friends Of The Earth).

Right now, people are working together to help create bee-friendly spaces all over the country – and you can too.

Simply make a donation to Friends of the Earth today and they send you a Bee Saver Kit, packed with everything you need to fight for our buzzy little friends.

On the FOE website there is a map and they want everyone to help them cover the map in wildflowers!

Bees are vanishing from Britain but you can help. Get your Bee Saver Kit today, with wildflower seeds and bee-saving materials, and Friends of the earth will pin a flower for you on their map. FRIENDS OF THE EARTH

]]> http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/help-save-britains-bees/feed/ 0 http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/help-save-britains-bees/ Win a week’s holiday to Chile http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BestInGarden/~3/gjyVuqQhoEU/ http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/win-a-weeks-holiday-to-chile/#comments Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:57:11 +0000 PeterTratt http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/?post_type=article_type&p=2410 Put gardening to one side for a moment and take time to enter the latest competition from the Guardian, the prize is a fantastic trip to South America. To mark the home entertainment release of NO, Network Releasing and Journey Latin America are offering Guardian Extra members the chance to win a seven-night wine and culture inspired tour of Chile for two people. Closing date is midnight on 30/06/2013 CLICK HERE

]]> http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/win-a-weeks-holiday-to-chile/feed/ 0 http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/win-a-weeks-holiday-to-chile/ Chelsea Flower Show competition for 16/24 year olds http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BestInGarden/~3/kRsOnWujfdM/ http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/chelsea-flower-show-competition-for-1624-year-olds/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 10:30:34 +0000 PeterTratt http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/?post_type=article_type&p=2376 Ten young readers have the chance to win a unique tour of the world famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show in its centenary year. Open to anyone aged between sixteen and twenty four years with an interest in horticulture. The winners will be accompanied by RHS Garden Curator and BBC2 Gardeners’ World contributor Colin Crosbie. There will also be the chance to meet some of the world’s best garden designers. This competition is supported by the London Evening Standard and the RHS. Entries can be tweeted with hashtag #hortmatters or emailed to hortmatters@rhs.co.uk. The deadline is 11.59pm on Tuesday 14th May.
MORE DETAILS HERE

]]> http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/chelsea-flower-show-competition-for-1624-year-olds/feed/ 1 http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/chelsea-flower-show-competition-for-1624-year-olds/ Competition To Win Chelsea Flower Show Tickets http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BestInGarden/~3/UhkSDUDOKfM/ http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/competition-to-win-chelsea-flower-show-tickets/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 10:34:26 +0000 PeterTratt http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/?post_type=article_type&p=2364 The show season is just starting to get going and thank goodness the weather is looking better than last year, so far anyway! Well it couldn’t be much worse, could it?

To celebrate probably what is the most famous flower show in the world and right on cue earlier this week we received details of a competition to win two tickets to the Chelsea Flower Show.

Here is the link to submit your entry CLICK HERE

]]> http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/competition-to-win-chelsea-flower-show-tickets/feed/ 1 http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/competition-to-win-chelsea-flower-show-tickets/ Glastonbury Tickets Prize Draw http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BestInGarden/~3/4YnXgVazq40/ http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/glastonbury-tickets-prize-draw/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:44:44 +0000 PeterTratt http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/?post_type=article_type&p=2347 This is a bit different to the gardening related competitions we normally highlight, but as we now have an ‘Outdoor Living’ theme as well it fits nicely in there!

Three pairs of tickets for the famous Glastonbury Festival are on offer, it is actually located on the edge of a village called Pilton in, if you don’t know where it is just join the end of the queue heading into Somerset and you should find your way there!

Here are just some of the headline acts announced that are lined up to perform this year. The Rolling Stones, Arctic Monkeys Mumford & Sons, plus hundreds more acts that will be on the various stages at what is now seen as the world’s greatest music festival. Last-chance tickets sold out in just over an hour but there are three pairs of tickets to give away The prize draw closes at 23:59 on Friday 3 May 2013 CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

]]> http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/glastonbury-tickets-prize-draw/feed/ 0 http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/glastonbury-tickets-prize-draw/ Win Gardeners’ World Live Tickets http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BestInGarden/~3/2wdILxlRX2A/ http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/win-gardeners-world-live-tickets/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:13:36 +0000 PeterTratt http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/?post_type=article_type&p=2337 As mentioned in the email newsletter here are details of the competition to win tickets to Gardeners’ World Live. The BBC Gardeners’ World Live Show is on 12 – 16th June 2013 and features The RHS Flower Show Birmingham. It looks like it will be one of the best days out this summer with expert advice, lots of exhibitors plus displays and demonstrations from members of the Gardeners’ World team. Currently those that we know will be attending include some of the nation’s favourite gardening stars and top designers including Monty Don, Diarmuid Gavin, Cleve West and James Alexander-Sinclair. CLICK HERE

]]> http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/win-gardeners-world-live-tickets/feed/ 0 http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/win-gardeners-world-live-tickets/ Win a caravan in this £18,000 prize draw! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BestInGarden/~3/BRFZXx6pGkQ/ http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/win-a-caravan-in-this-18000-prize-draw/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:28:02 +0000 Green Gardener http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/?post_type=article_type&p=2317 We are always on the look out for gardening and outdoor living competitions that our readers at www.bestingarden.co.uk can ‘have a go at’. This one has to be the most valuable featured so far and it’s for a caravan, a Bailey Pegasus GT65 Verona to be precise,which makes up the eighteen thousand pound value draw. You can have a look at the details and how to enter here CARAVAN COMPETITION closing date is Tuesday 23 July 2013

]]> http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/win-a-caravan-in-this-18000-prize-draw/feed/ 2 http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/win-a-caravan-in-this-18000-prize-draw/ Got a nice photo? It could win you £2,500 in this competition. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BestInGarden/~3/XNVTCPZAZv0/ http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/got-a-nice-photo-it-could-win-you-2500-in-this-competition/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:54:05 +0000 PeterTratt http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/?post_type=article_type&p=2300 The winner of this photographic competition will receive a prize of £2,500. Also in the prize is a visit to the Old Pulteney distillery in Wick where the winner can fill their own bottle from the Maritime Malt. The winners picture will be featured in the Sunday Express. Closing date for entries is June 3 2013. CLICK HERE for more details

]]> http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/got-a-nice-photo-it-could-win-you-2500-in-this-competition/feed/ 1 http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/got-a-nice-photo-it-could-win-you-2500-in-this-competition/ Gardener’s Briefs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BestInGarden/~3/DJcaJteXteY/ http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/article/gardeners-briefs-5/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:23:32 +0000 Green Gardener http://www.bestingarden.co.uk/?post_type=article_type&p=2193 A garden designer’s diary, how to juggle the demands plus expectations of contractors, clients and the weather is the challenge for Tom Hoblyn : guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2012/oct/25/tom-hoblyn-garden-designer?newsfeed=true

Gardeners are delighted after receiving their certificates at the Cornwall In Bloom awards: thisiscornwall.co.uk/Gardening-fans-receive-awards/story-17176584-detail/story.html

Newlyn Art Gallery appeals for help with their garden project: thisiscornwall.co.uk/Gallery-appeals-support-garden-project/story-17178445-detail/story.html

Antirrhinum Rainbow 50 Plants + 20 FREE, £13.49 HERE

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