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Kids win Wildlife competition

23 June 2010

Squires Garden Centre

Children from Cranmore School in West Horsley visited their local Squire's Garden Centre on Thursday 17 June for a special prize giving event. The winners received gardening goodie bags to attract wildlife including wild bird feeders and bird table. The school also received Squire’s vouchers to help with their own gardening projects.

Surrey Wildlife Trust has linked up with Squire's at West Horsley to create a wildlife garden in the grounds at 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 woodland path, bug block of flats and a hibernaculum. West Horsley is the second wildlife garden to be built at Squire’s with one already in place at their Long Ditton 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".

 

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