At Ferndale – where it all started.
National Children’s Gardening Week is back from Saturday 25th May to Sunday 2nd of June & with even more fun this year for your under 10s.
National Children’s Gardening Week celebrates and encourages children to start growing plants and enjoy all the aspects of garden fun, including looking out for British wildlife and nature in our gardens.
Garden Centres up and down the UK will be taking part with all sorts of activities.
Here at Ferndale Garden Centre, where National Children’s Gardening Week started in 2015 , we have a lots of FREE activities all week and scheduled paid activities every afternoon during the week days. See all the details below.
Help us build a bug hotel in our unique ‘Bug Hotel Treasure Hunt’.
Activities are being held in our mini marque outside the coffee shop.
National Children’s Gardening Week was started here at Ferndale Garden Centre by Neil Grant even though in that first year it wasn’t really national. From small acorns larger Oaks grow.
In that first year Neil’s contacts in the garden centre industry saw it’s potential and approximately 50 garden centres joined in.
Today all sorts of businesses join in from city institutions, schools, nurseries, authors, & TV cooks have understand the impact that plants, growing & gardening have on children’s health & education.
Oh and it’s fun after all.
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