Ardentinny Community Trust Archives - Page 20 of 35

April 18, 2014April 18, 2014

Walled Garden reopens with Eggstravaganza

Glenfinart Walled Garden reopens for the new season this Easter Monday. The garden will feature a range of activities for all the family, adding to the fun of the Forestry Commission Scotland's Easter Eggstravaganza at Glenfinart Bay, Ardentinny. A selection of home-baking will be available as well as fun and games for the young ones in …

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March 31, 2014July 24, 2022

Walled Garden team looks forward to new season

Glenfinart Walled Garden's plans for participating in Forestry Commission Scotland's Annual Easter Eggstravaganza at Ardentinny on 21 April are well underway. After the winter storms which flooded parts of the garden, the volunteers (with the help of the Payback Team) have been hard at work constructing paths, installing edging in the vegetable plots and constructing raised …

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March 14, 2014March 14, 2014

Walled Garden project exceeds LEADER expectations

As a major funder of the Glenfinart Walled Garden project, Argyll and the Islands LEADER Programme staff visited the garden recently. Project coordinator Sheila McLean and her colleague Annemarie McLean discussed and evidenced progress to date, in support of their completion report. They were both very impressed with the work that had been done and …

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February 18, 2014February 20, 2014

Community Payback Team making a difference at Walled Garden

Over the past year Dunoon’s Community Payback Team has been contributing to the success of Glenfinart Walled Garden. Including the regular strimming, weeding, planting, compost collection and general garden maintenance, the Community Payback team, under the direction of supervisor John Gilchrist, has also been laying paths with road *planings and gravel provided by Argyll & Bute …

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January 4, 2014January 4, 2014

Sculptured fish and toadstools afloat

With garden art afloat and 'Elfin Cottage' under a foot of water, parts of Glenfinart Walled Garden remain flooded from the River Finart overflow on Saturday. The waters rose sufficiently to penetrate the office floor, however there does not appear to be any damage to the main infrastructure of the garden. Parts of the area …

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