Gardener’s Blether – October 2015
October issue of Gardener's Blether, the newsletter of Glenfinart Walled Garden (PDF).
Harvest Fair welcomes the visitors
What has now become an annual event, last weekend's Glenfinart Walled Garden’s Harvest Fair celebrated another year of garden produce and progress. The garden’s resident horticulturalist/gardener Franziska Schmidt and her amazing groups of volunteers excelled themselves in what has been a difficult year, weather-wise, for all local gardens. Delicious apple juice was pressed from the …
Popup ‘SolidarityStudio’ promotes #RefugeesWelcome
As part of Amnesty International's Refugees Welcome campaign, ardentinny.org created a popup '#SolidarityStudio' at Saturday's Glenfinart Walled Garden Harvest Fair. In support of the #RefugeesWelcome message, a steady stream of visitors were photographed with a background of refugee images kindly provided by photographers @BartVanEijden and @Xandra_Photo. Each was presented with a complimentary souvenir print. The images were …
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Community Council notice board ban on 38 Degrees refugee poster
The following has been posted on Ardentinny’s Community Notice Board: “The notices about refugees produced by a political activist group “38 degrees" have been removed by members of the Ardentinny Community Council. This noticeboard belongs to and is administered by the community council, which, by the definition of Argyll and Bute Council, has to remain …
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Glenfinart Walled Garden hosts first wedding
Ardentinny's historic Glenfinart Walled Garden last week marked a milestone as a wedding venue. Clair Tierney and Derek Nelson chose to exchange their vows within the grade 2 listed walls of the century-old garden which was bought by the community of Ardentinny in 2012. Set beside the only beach in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs …
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