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7th July 2009: Chelsea Garden to come to Sheffield
Green Estate, the Manor based social enterprise has been sucessful in its bid for funding to re-create a award winning show garden from this years Chelsea Flower Show at its Manor Oaks farm site on Manor Lane.
The "Future Nature" garden obtained a Silver Gilt award at Chelsea and was designed by Dr Nigel Dunnett of Sheffield University and architects Ark DM to demonstate the latest techniques in garden and landscape design developed to cope with climate change conditions.
Mike Evans, Business Manager of Green Estate commented : " We are very pleased to obtain this landfill tax grant from Viridor Credits which will enable us to bring this wonderful world class garden to the people of Sheffield . The garden demonstrates many areas of work with which Green Estate is associated such as Urban Meadows, Green Roofs, Living Walls and Sustainable Drainage. The garden will be re-created as part of the redevelopment of our Manor Oaks site and will be available for visits next summer . Not only is the garden beautiful to look at but it has many educational features and we plan to encourage local schools to visit and learn about ways to tackle climate change"
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