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Article: Thousands enjoy bloomin' day out LEISURE: Feast for keen gardeners with colourful displays and top tips
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- September 3, 2007
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WE might be city dwellers but there's nothing we like better than
making our gardens blooming lovely.
That fact was colourfully underlined by 20,000 visitors who
flocked to Kings Heath Park for one of the city's most popular events
of the year - Birmingham Gardeners' Weekend.
But one of this year's biggest attractions was not a plant, but TV
gardening guru Christine Walk-den, of BBC's Christine's Garden.
She won a deafening round of applause at the end of the show for
all her helpful advice. Also on hand revealing the secrets of his
green fingers was gardening writer Steve Bradley.
Another crowd puller was the award-winning Australian beach scene,
sponsored by Akamba Exotics, which ...