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Article: The secret garden of delights; A remarkable Midland garden is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Ross Reyburn reports.(Gardening)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2000
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It is not easy to find, but the journey is worthwhile. For down a Worcestershire country lane, off the road between Shrawley and Great Witley at an isolated spot called Sankyns Green, is the finest cottage garden in the West Midlands.
Next Saturday between 7pm-9pm, Carol and Malcolm Skinner are holding a celebratory evening for visitors at the Eastgrove Cottage Garden Nursery they created 25 years ago.
Malcolm Skinner was working as a Birmingham hotelier when he was looking for a bolthole in the countryside. They bought a half-derelict, timber-framed ...
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Article: Open Gardens
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June 15, 2007 ;
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... ... shrub beds, wild flower area, rose garden and specialist collection of hardy geraniums. Admission pounds 2. SUNDAY Eastgrove Cottage Garden Nursery, Sankyns Green, Shrawley (01299 896389). 2pm - 5pm. Country cottage flower garden with arboretum ...
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