Kids win wildlife competition with Squire's and Surrey Wildlife Trust

03 June 2010

Squires Garden Centre Children from St Mary's School in Long Ditton visited their local Squire's Garden Centre on Thursday 27 May for a special prize giving event. The winners received gardening goodie bags to attract wildlife including wild bird feeders and boxes. The school also received Squire's vouchers to help with their own gardening projects.

Surrey Wildlife Trust has linked up with Squire's at Long Ditton to create a wildlife garden in the grounds around the centre. The competition was to help design the information boards that will be placed around the new wildlife garden to give visitors to the garden centre advice on wildlife friendly gardening.

Sarah Squire said "The project with Surrey Wildlife Trust has been great fun and the garden is a wonderful addition to our Centre. It has already proved very popular with visitors. The competition was a super way to get local children involved and interested in wildlife gardens and I have been delighted with the response."

The project saw the installation of bird boxes and bird feeding stations, a bug block of flats, a native hedgerow, a hibernaculum and wildflower patch. Long Ditton was only the start of the relationship with Squire's Garden Centres with a second wildlife garden already in place at their West Horsley centre.

Jodie Mills, People and Wildlife Manager from Surrey Wildlife Trust said "Gardens are becoming increasingly important havens for wildlife as habitats in the countryside shrink and fragment and climate change takes its toll. We hope that by linking up with Squire's Garden Centres we can inform people about sustainable gardening practices that encourage wildlife and environmental conservation and have fun building some of the features in the process".

For more information about the Wildlife Gardening project please pop into the Long Ditton centre or contact Jodie Mills on 01483 795468 or 07968 832509 or email: jodie.mills@surreywt.org.uk

Further information on Surrey Wildlife Trust can be found at http://www.surreywildlifetrust.org/

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