Home » What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more » Anniesland College’s Third Annual Garden Show

Anniesland College’s Third Annual Garden Show

6th June And 7th June 2013

19 Hatfield Drive, Glasgow G12 0YE

For the past three months students from first and second year of Anniesland College’s Landscape Design and Construction course have been competing for inclusion in Anniesland Garden Show. Now in its third year, this annual show has around seventeen show gardens, all of them designed and built by students.

Each garden is 3 metres by 5 metres and the theme for this year’ show is ‘Our Environment’. Once again, the Landscape Design and Construction students have come up trumps with their creative approaches to the subject. Visitors to this year’s show will be able to view completed gardens for the winning designs which include:

Volcanic Construction: Using red, yellow and orange flowering plants, Connor Bainbridge displays the fiery eruptions of a volcano to show that, even though volcanoes bring short-term destruction, the ash layer contains many useful minerals which are, in time, converted into a rich and fertile soil.

Outdoor Classroom Garden: Ryan MacMillan brings the classroom outside to teach children how to encourage wildlife.

Dig for Victory: Veteran of the Iraq campaign, Richard Florence, recreates a garden during war time, complete with Anderson Shelter and shows how the dig for victory gardeners were amongst the first to really embrace the environmental movement. From reduction of food miles to reuse of waste materials, they utilised the kind of good environmental practices that have become so popular again today.

Charlie and the Fair Trade Chocolate Factory: Grant McIlroy’s garden has candy canes, lollipops and a chocolate river to demonstrate the close association between the Fair Trade movement and environmental conservation.

No Man’s Land: Jamie Galloway imagines how a typical family garden would look if humans were to be wiped out and shows how Nature would begin to take back the land that was once under human control.

The Peace Garden: A CND peace symbol etched into the lawn is the centrepiece for Thomas Hamilton’s garden which explores how the hippie movement helped contribute to our awareness of global environmental issues.

Five a Day in the Night Garden: Steven Dow’s garden features a carousel of hanging baskets filled with strawberry plants, a teletubbie-like Earth House and all manner of fruit and vegetables. The garden is a fun way to teach young children all about their ‘Five a Day’.

Guerrilla Gardening: Tanaka Mutandwa is saying it with flowers all over the college grounds. His map will take you to areas he has brightened up with a spot of guerrilla gardening.

The Balcony Garden: Special programmes horticulture students get involved in a joint project to show how you can grow your own and encourage wildlife even if you only have a space the size of a typical balcony.

Pictures of previous shows and of all the designs for this year’s show are on Anniesland Garden Show’s Facebook page:  
Anniesland Garden Show Facebook

About Landscape Design and Construction at Anniesland

The college’s Landscape Design and Construction course focuses on the skills required to gain employment or to enter self-employment in the landscaping industry.  Students have to master a number of skills including landscape design, paving, bricklaying, outdoor timber construction, soft landscaping and horticulture as well as learn how to quantify and price projects.

Further information is available from course tutor :Julie Kilpatrick:

email

Telephone: 07807 142661/ 0141 357 7675

This section: What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more