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Holding an allotment show this year?
We can now supply members with the items below. Contact natsoc@nsalg.org.uk to check availability; An order form is available in the members section of the website.
• Award Certificates: Gold, Silver, Bronze
• Certificates of Merit:
• Rosettes: 1st – Red, 2nd – Blue, 3rd - Yellow • Blue Ribbons
• Exhibit Cards
• Prize Cards: 1st, 2nd , 3rd
• Membership Lapel Badges
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The Great British Bee Count
The Great British Bee Count takes place 17 May-30 June this year. Friends of the Earth is asking wildlife-lovers to record the bees they spot with a free, easy-to-use app. Discover the incredible diversity of bees we have in the UK, the threats they face, and what you can do to help them. Register now at www.greatbritishbeecount.co.uk
National Allotments Week 2018 – 13 to 19 August 2018 – Living and Growing
What are you doing for National Allotments Week?
This year’s theme highlights the importance of growing your own food and the
Society would like
to see everyone
incorporating fruit
and vegetable
gardening in
some way in
to their lives,
however small.
So, let’s open our
gates during the
2018 campaign week, show off our skills, share our joy in gardening and communal endeavour and get everyone living and growing!
Get in touch about your Open Days and Allotments Shows during National Allotments Week 2018, and we will send you 3 posters and a publicity pack. Email diane@nsalg.org.uk with details of your plans.
Upcoming Events
Look out for the NAS at the following events highlighted!
MAY
RHS Malvern Spring Festival – 10-13 May 2018
Devon County Show – 17-19 May 2018
Royal Welsh Spring Festival – 19-20 May 2018 RHS Chelsea Flower Show – 22-26 May 2018 Hertfordshire County Show – 26-27 May 2018 The Kent Garden Show – 26-28 May 2018 The Suffolk Show – 30-31 May 2018
JUNE
Royal Bath & West Show – 30 May-2 June 2018 Gardening Scotland – 1-3 June 2018
RHS Chatsworth Flower Show – 6-10 June 2018 Royal Cornwall Show – 7-9 June 2018
South of England Show – 7-9 June 2018
BBC Gardeners’ World Live – 14-17 June 2018
Royal Three Counties – 15-17 June 2018
House & Garden Festival – 20-24 June 2018
RHS Garden Harlow Carr Flower Show – 22-24 June 2018 Woburn Abbey Garden Show – 24 June 2018
JULY
RHS Hampton Court Flower Show – 3-8 July 2018 Kent County Show – 6-8 July 2018
Great Yorkshire Show – 10-12 July 2018
RHS Flower Show Tatton Park – 18-22 July 2018 Royal Welsh Show – 23-26 July 2018
New Forest & Hampshire County Show – 24-26 July 2018 The Garden Show at Loseley Park – 27-29 July 2018
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