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Although the garden has been around since 1957, it’s not the easiest place to find, nestled between the new Royal Bank of Scotland and the Park and Ride at Heriot Watt. So where exactly are we, well here’s an aerial shot, although we are an inch to the right, google haven’t quite found us either -
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It’s not all hard work, some people come along and just enjoy the day out
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Horticulture Week
05 June 2009
Flower power drove gardening charity Perennial and land-based college Oatridge’s clapped-out VW Beetle to gold at Gardening Scotland.
Co-designer with Oatridge horticultural team leader Ann Burns, Oatridge Suntrap Garden leader John Smith said the most colourful car in Scotland could now be recycled to make an entrance feature at nearby Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway.
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It was a hard day setting up the beatle at the site.
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We’ve been extremely busy in the garden over the last month. Our gardening classes took part in Gardening Scotland.
We entered three containers – Blackburn Support Centre, the Portobello Project and Cedarbank School, two pallet gardens – Cedarbank School and Pinewood Day Centre and along with Oatridge and Perennial, Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Society we entered a show garden.
Here are the students from Pinewood Day Centre preparing their garden. The design involved an old drawing board – on one side was a drawing of the plan of the garden they would like to create and on the other the finished garden.
The students planted and drew the design themselves.
Placed the pots into the frame on the design board and on the other side wrote down the names of the plants.
Julie and Gillian from Suntrap helped to set it up on site at Gardening Scotland.
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What a perfect Summer’s day we had. The weather was beautiful, the garden was busy.
But, I think Eubee, the snowy owl, might have been the star attraction for many.
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The garden is open again on Saturday and Sunday from 10.00 am until 4.00 pm.
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The annual open day will take place this year on Sunday 24 May 2009 from 10.30 am to 4.30 pm.
Entry is £2.00 for adults and £1.00 for concession with proceeds going to Perennial, the Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Society.
It will feature the usual range of events, garden tours with John Smith at 11.00, 12.00, 2.00 and 3.00, teas and coffees, plants sales and of course, our beautiful garden almost in full bloom.
It’s always a delightful occasion with the garden full of visitors.
How to find us
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I came into Suntrap today, I wasn’t sure if I would make it or not. I knew the bypass would be clear but I wasn’t sure about the road round to the garden. I needn’t have worried it was easy.
Once I got out of the car the garden was so peaceful, not a sound, just peace and quiet that only comes when it’s been snowing and the lovely crunching noise when you’re the first person to step in the snow.
It snowed all day and the garden just got whiter and whiter.
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As you transfer dates and put new ones into your calendars and diaries get this most important date in now so you don’t forget and miss this great day out.
As we begin to get ready for the big day we will post more news.
