Aylett Nurseries

Visits 2017

Visits we have made during 2017.
Adel Church, Leeds

Ayletts Garden Centre, St. Albans

Centre for Alternative Technology

Countryfile Live

Cwmystwyth

Elan Valley

Felley Priory

Garden Organic, Ryton

Great Yorkshire Show

Harrogate Autumn Flower Show

Kelham Island

RHS Chatsworth

RHS Harlow Carr

RHS Wisley

Rotherham Churches


Wentworth Garden Centre

York Gate Gardens


And an apology. Some of the headings aren't quite in the right place. Put it down to senility.

Cultivation Street 2015 David Domoney meets winners Bedford Road

Meet the winners of the Cultivation Street community gardening campaign 2015. David Domoney, TV Gardener and founder of the campaign, meets the residents and supporters of winning entry Bedford Road.

Cultivation Street is a community gardening campaign created by David Domoney to support and reward community gardening projects. Thousands of community and neighbourhood groups, as well as school gardens, enter the competition every year. This year’s winners, Bedford Road in St Albans, received a jackpot £10,000 of National Garden Gift Vouchers!

One resident, David Glanville, became frustrated by ongoing roadworks that turned the street into a building site. Once the workmen had left, he visited his neighbours to see if they would join him in sprucing up the street.

He enlisted the help of local garden centre Aylett Nurseries to offer gardening and plant advice and encourage more people to take up gardening.

The community group began to build and soon all the residents were tending to their front gardens. The street is made up of old Victorian terraces that have paved or concreted spaces instead of front gardens. But residents were creative with pots and hanging baskets, and soon brought colour back to their street.

Now other streets are joining in and the area has a vibrant community group and friendly atmosphere. Everyone has worked together to make their street a nicer, greener place to live and they thoroughly deserved to win the competition.

David Domoney visits the street to talk to David Glanville and other residents of Bedford Road to talk to them about gardening, working together as a community and winning the big Cultivation Street prize.

He also visits Aylett Nurseries to talk to the managing director Adam Wigglesworth and find out what a great effect gardening can have on the local community. Plus we look at some tips for those of you who would love to start a community gardening project – just go and knock on your neighbours’ doors!

Cultivation Street and its national competition is run by David Domoney in association with The Sunday People Newspaper and The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA).

Cultivation Street: Bringing Britain’s streets back to life through people, plants and pride.

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