Get your Wokingham garden blooming with plant sales
Whether it’s a row of bright Wokingham blooms in the garden or a fab growing gift for a friend, the new plant sales at the Acorn Community Centre are now offering a blaze of summer colour - and an opportunity to help learning-disabled gardeners at the same time.
The Acorn Community Centre in Fernlea Drive, Woosehill, Wokingham is now holding plant sales every weekday from 10am to 2.30pm. Bedding plants, perennials, shrubs, herbs and vegetables are all available at very reasonable prices, lovingly grown and sold by the gardeners of Growing Places.
Growing Places teaches horticultural skills such as seed sowing, potting on and creative floral crafts, as well as offering learning-disabled gardeners opportunities to enter competitions and participate in plant sales, which offers valuable social and money-handling skills.
Executive member for Wokingham social care Cllr Chris Edmunds said: “The plant sales are really good value and it is great to see our learning-disabled gardeners proving their resourcefulness and skills for all the public to see. I urge people to come along and see the plant sale area in action – there are lots of bargains to be had!”
For those who really love gardening, it is now also possible to become a member of Growing Places and get a discount card. Members of the charity’s sponsorship scheme are entitled to substantial discounts at the plant sales, receive regular newsletters, and help Growing Places to provide invaluable confidence building skills to people with learning disabilities. To become a member contact the centre on (0118) 989 9750, email horticultural therapist margaret.larby@wokingham.gov.uk or visit www.wokingham.gov.uk/growingplaces.
The Acorn Community Centre in Fernlea Drive, Woosehill, Wokingham is now holding plant sales every weekday from 10am to 2.30pm. Bedding plants, perennials, shrubs, herbs and vegetables are all available at very reasonable prices, lovingly grown and sold by the gardeners of Growing Places.
Growing Places teaches horticultural skills such as seed sowing, potting on and creative floral crafts, as well as offering learning-disabled gardeners opportunities to enter competitions and participate in plant sales, which offers valuable social and money-handling skills.
Executive member for Wokingham social care Cllr Chris Edmunds said: “The plant sales are really good value and it is great to see our learning-disabled gardeners proving their resourcefulness and skills for all the public to see. I urge people to come along and see the plant sale area in action – there are lots of bargains to be had!”
For those who really love gardening, it is now also possible to become a member of Growing Places and get a discount card. Members of the charity’s sponsorship scheme are entitled to substantial discounts at the plant sales, receive regular newsletters, and help Growing Places to provide invaluable confidence building skills to people with learning disabilities. To become a member contact the centre on (0118) 989 9750, email horticultural therapist margaret.larby@wokingham.gov.uk or visit www.wokingham.gov.uk/growingplaces.
Wokingham Borough Council
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