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South West gardening business Otter Garden Centres is running a summer competition with a fantastic top prize.

The ‘Make a Scarecrow’ competition gives participants the chance to win a British-made Elite greenhouse worth £1000.

Gardening enthusiasts and imaginative creators young and old are invited to take part and enter their scarecrow designs, which will be judged by...

Visitors to the National Trust's Buckland Abbey near Plymouth are being rewarded with an explosion of colour and scent as the newly planted rose beds in the Elizabethan Garden start to bloom.

Over 100 new single and semi-double flowered rose plants were planted by the garden team in February. As well as looking and smelling wonderful, these varieties are easily accessible and...

Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) are calling for people to lace up their walking boots and take on the Incredible Hike in May 2024.

The charity’s Incredible Hike challenge is a guided 3-day walk from Friday 17 May to Sunday 19 May 2024, totalling 60 miles along the South West Coast Path from Minehead to Croyde.

With only 50 places available, this is going to be a sell-...

A housebuilder at North Prospect is celebrating the success of its innovative Mayflower Leat Skills Academy, as the final cohort of students graduate and the programme comes to an end.

As part of its Mayflower Leat housing development, which is part of the North Prospect regeneration, Countryside Partnerships delivered the Academy in partnership with training provider Train 4 All....