The Peoples - Issue 30

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Issue 30 Oct/Nov 2014

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PEOPLES ALL MIXED UP Raku and textiles at Abbey Walk Gallery ONE VOICE Making a difference for Immingham

TO EARTHWOOD AND BEYOND An interview with poet and author Simon Naylor

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ell the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is upon us and that means Hallowe’en and Guy Fawkes Night - two of our favourite nights of the year.

Have fun and stay safe.

In this issue we’ve got an interview with author Sime Naylor, a preview of the new exhibition at the Abbey Walk Gallery, Paul Hollywood at the Auditorium and a look at the One Voice project and the fantastic work they do for the community in Immingham plus plenty of listings and arts and events news. So stay warm and have a great Autumn!

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All Mixed Up

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Remember, Remember

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Gardening

Britain’s favourite artisan baker comes to town

Raku and textiles at Abbey Walk Galleries

Guy Fawkes - the 30th greatest Briton of all time?

The Black Dyke Band at The Central Hall

In Wellowgate and Brighowgate, St Peter’s Avenue and Immingham

Josie-Anne Gray talks to author Simon Naylor

Dinosaurs and Raspberry Pi’s. What’s not to like?

Stay warm and stylish this winter

Traditional clay tiles are all the rage

Pumpkins at the ready? Now get carving! Then cook.

An evening with Wayne Gardner

It’s all over the front page. What gives you road rage?

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In The Know Your indispensable guide to what’s going on where you live

Hooray For Hollywood!

Forget your soggy bottoms and get your bake on as Britain’s favourite artisan baker comes to the Auditorium

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nly a few years ago if you had suggested that the great British public would be glued to their TV screens every week to watch a competitive baking show nobody would have believed you.

And if you’d gone further and suggested that Britain’s favourite baker would tour to packed houses with a one man show you’d probably have been laughed out of town. But of course it’s all true and that’s in no small part down to the skill and charisma of Paul Hollywood, who will be at the Auditorium on Thursday 20th November with his British Baking Live Tour.

The show promises an evening of baking, comedy and fun as Paul demonstrates recipes and talks about some of his favourite regional baking.

He will also reveal some of the secrets of being a top TV chef and take the audience on a culinary tour of the United Kingdom, showcasing some of the country’s best loved regional specialities.

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Audience members will get a real insight into Paul’s life and career and he’ll talk about how his father persuaded him to ditch his path as a trained sculptor to join the family baking business and tell tales of his time as head baker at some of the world’s most exclusive hotels, all of which led to him becoming one of the country’s finest artisan bakers.

Paul will demonstrate up to four of his favourite recipes and four lucky audience members will take part in one baking challenge live on stage.

Should be a great night so if you’re a fan of the Bake

Off or even if you just like the smell of fresh bread we suggest you book early because tickets will, almost inevitably, go like hot cakes.

Paul Hollywood is at Grimsby Auditorium on Thursday 20 November at 8pm. Tickets are £29.50 and can be booked in person at the Auditorium, by phone to 0844 8713016 or on the web by visiting www.atgtickets.com

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A fantastic day of jazz starts with the New York Brass Band whose New Orleans inspired street music will set the www.grimsbyminster.co.uk mood. Then it’s Steel The Rhythm with Pat McCarthy and the finale is the Gypsy Jazz 6 piece Ultraswing.

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Nothing ever happens round here. We hear that a lot. But in fact there’s loads to see and do in our area if you know where to look. Here are just a few upcoming events that are ...

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www.agecareug.org Our good friend Mark Howarth of Garden Aid is organising an extra special effort this Christmas to recruit sponsors for grandparents in the Mukunyu province of Uganda. It’s an area of the country which has been badly affected by civil war and by disease and it’s very often the grandparents who are left to care for the youngest and most vulnerable. If you’d like to make a donation you can contact Mark on 07742 638423 or via the website above.

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If you’d like to find out more about your family history but you really don’t know where to start then why not pay a visit the Grimsby Family History Society’s Resource evening?

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a major new exhibition for the autumn at Abbey Walk Gallery

All Mixed Up Stuart Smith & Margaret Nash 22nd Oct - 29th Nov 2014

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bbey Walk Gallery will be filled with beautiful Raku ware and contemporary textile work this autumn when they host a major exhibition celebrating the lifelong friendship of sculptor Stuart Smith and textile artist Margaret Nash.

Stuart Smith is an internationally renowned sculptor who received his formal training under the tutelage of James Butler RA at The City & Guilds London Art School and then at the Royal Academy School, Piccadilly.

He draws inspiration from everyday situations and his intimate and imaginative sculptures are based on a close and affectionate observation of people going about their everyday lives.

Margaret Nash is not only a creator but also a teacher and was for many years the embroidery designer for Marks & Spencer.

In fact many of the designs which will be on display at the exhibition are kindly loaned by the Marks & Spencer archive collection based in Leeds.

Margaret takes inspiration from natural and organic forms and makes use of stitched and appliquĂŠed textiles to create complex and subtle narratives of remembrance and connection.

Abbey Walk Gallery is open from 9-5 Tues-Sat. For further information contact Gill or Elaine on 01472 241007 or email art@abbeywalkgallery.com

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Remember Remember

Guy Fawkes was recently voted the 30th greatest Briton in history but what do we know about the man with the gunpowder?

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ince being adopted as the face of protestors all over the world Guido Fawkes is cool again but although he tried to blow up Parliament he wasn’t really the anti-capitalist type.

He wasn’t really called Guido either. He was christened plain old Guy but he changed his name because it sounded more Spanish and romantic. He was born in York and had a reputation for being “pleasant, cheerful and loyal to his friends”. To this day St. Peter’s School in York doesn’t celebrate bonfire night because they refuse to burn a former pupil.

Although he’s the most famous plotter Guy Fawkes wasn’t the ringleader, that was Robert Catesby. His job was guarding the explosives underneath the Parliament and lighting the fuses.

The thirty six barrels of powder were brought into the cellars in July 1605 but due to the outbreak of the Black Death the opening of Parliament was postponed until early November.

Following the plotters’ betrayal Fawkes was discovered in the early hours of fifth, ready to trigger the blast which scientists calculate would have destroyed the whole palace and most of the buildings in a half mile radius.

He was brought before the King and denounced him as a disease upon the country before being taken away to be tortured. He resisted for three days before giving up the conspirators and was executed in January 1606 at which time he wasn’t even considered to be in the top 100 greatest Britons.

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One of the world’s most celebrated brass bands comes to town

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Black Dyke are one of the longest established bands in the country, having been formed in the West Yorkshire town of Queensbury in 1855 by John Foster, a french horn player and mill owner. The band was always closely associated with its local community and most of its players worked at the mill.

In 1904 they became one of the first bands to make a recording and two years later they toured the USA, playing over 200 concerts on a 13,000 mile itinerary! Since then they have played all over the world, on every continent, and consistently delighted audiences with their performances.

Over the years they have made more than 350 recordings, playing alongside such luminaries as Sir

Edward Heath, Sir Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel and renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie. They even made an appearance on The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine album!

They have an outstanding record on the competitive band scene having won the National Brass Band Championships on twenty two occasions, the British Open on twenty nine and the European Championship twelve times.

Conducted by Dr. Nicholas Childs the band promise to perform a varied programme including old favourites and a few surprises and you can be certain of a fantastic night of music, Black Dyke style.

“virtuosity of this order simply takes one’s breath away, quite wonderful”

Tickets £16 from the box office on 01472 355025. For further details go to www.grimsbycentralhall.org

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One Voice works to promote the regeneration of Immingham, Habrough and Stallingborough by bringing residents together with a wide range of service providers including local authorities, police, industry and schools, and they really know how to make things happen.

Thanks to generous financial assistance from ABP and the hard work of their volunteers they’ve been responsible for organising events like the I-Fest, the Christmas Game Show night and the Community Cinema and they also raise and distribute money for local organisations including In Bloom, the

Air and Sea Cadets and the Wasps rugby club.

One Voice were responsible for organising the funding to keep the town’s Rock School project running for another two years, giving more than forty young people the chance to learn to play a musical instrument and in fact Rock School is such a success story its members were invited to The Savoy Hotel in London for an

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One Voice have got much more going on than we’ve got space to write about so we’ll keep up to date with them in future issues and meanwhile if you’re an Immingham resident who’d like to get involved with the community or a member of a local organisation in need of funds then they’d love to hear from you!

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Ever since that time however the church has been at the centre of the community and as the town has grown and The Avenue and the neighbouring streets have become popular shopping destinations so the Church has expanded it’s role in the community by organising and hosting a wide range of arts and cultural events.

The popular lunchtime concerts have now drawn to a close for this season at least but there’s still a lot going on at the church through the autumn including the North Lincs Art Society Annual Exhibition and The Grimsby Family History Society’s World War I Centenary Commemoration Exhibition.

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That’s in addition to regular services of course and the harvest festival service which will be at 10am on October 12th. There are also coffee mornings every Tuesday in the church to which all are welcome and on Fridays there’s tea and cake in the Church Hall.

North Lincs Art Society Exhibition from 10am-4pm Friday 3rd October to Wednesday 15th October Family History Group Exhibition Commemorating The Centenary Of World War I 10am-3pm Saturday 25th October to Friday 31st October (both events free entry and closed Sundays)

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INTERVIEW

To Earthwood Gray talks to poet And Beyond Josie & author Sime Naylor

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ime Naylor is well known around town as the front man of Merlin’s Keep, as a poet and as a bare kneed the postie with a social conscious. He’s had a busy autumn, producing two new children’s books in the popular Earthwood Series and a also a new volume of poetry, The Waymark.

I caught up with him after his daily round to delve further into the wonderful world of the Earthwood stories, for which Simon writes the stories and his friend and illustrator Tim Michael provides the drawings and I started by asking how they came to collaborate.

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Facing page - Sime Naylor (right) with artist illustrator Tim Michael Right: One of Tim’s illustrations from Earthwood

‘Tim and I met about 5 years ago when we were both at a local festival. I was aware of Tim’s cartoons and he was aware of my music and we got chatting.

When I saw some of his new characters, Red the Squirrel in particular, I thought of some stories I had written for my kids years before.’

So Earthwood was born and the pair set about creating a series of stories set in a magical woodland.

‘I’ve always loved the outdoors, especially woodland.

The woods and trees have a real pull, something ancient, something hidden and magical, but at the same time something familiar and comforting,’ explained Simon when I asked him to tell me why he had chosen a woodland setting for his world.

‘Woodland has been the friend of the human race since time immemorial, providing food, fuel and shelter, but also creating legend and myth. I guess I wanted to tap into that somehow, and hopefully bring some of the wonder of the woodland to children.’

The books tell the stories and adventures of animals, trees and the environment but they also have a more human dimension.

‘Essentially they’re stories about friendship, about working together, and working with the world around us rather than exploiting it.’

The two new volumes in the series continue these themes. The Scarecrow And The Crow’s Nest deals with fear and looks at how everyone, even if they seem strange, has something positive to offer.

Belinda And The Bee’s Nest takes a gentle look at greed and desire and at how we only need take a little of what the world has to offer.

We soon got to talking about poetry, Simon’s love of nature and how he tries to capture that in his verse.

The new work is a further exploration of landscape and follows on from his previous two collections.

‘This time I wanted to catch a particular moment in time, with all the associated sensations. Poetry is a very solitary thing for me, a way of distilling and discussing the emotion and inspiration that comes from walking the Lincolnshire Wolds, a landscape that I feel very rooted to.’

Simon explained that he sees his song and story writing as a direct way of connecting with an audience whereas for him poetry is more personal.

‘I reflect upon and record the living landscape that is such a source of imaginative inspiration and spiritual sustenance for me. It’s no surprise therefore, that I admire nature poets.

Wordsworth is an obvious inspiration, as is the poetry (rather than prose) of Thomas Hardy.’

Simon finds that the work of other poets inspires him to keep writing and to look to improve all the time. He is never unprepared for inspiration to strike him.

‘I carry a notebook when walking, and sometimes a whole poem or song will flood out. Sometimes it’s only a line and it’ll sit and gestate in that book until the time is right. I do tend to write very quickly, I have this need to get the thing finished pretty much straight away – then I tend to leave it alone and come back and chip away until if finds a form I’m happy with.’

“Essentially they’re stories about working with the world around us rather than exploiting it.”

Simon’s books are available from Waterstones and Amazon or directly from the author at Moonfruit Books 36 Manor Ave DN32 0QR. Poetry £3, Earthwood £3.50

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LEARNING

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It’s a programmable computer, about the size of a credit card, that plugs into a TV and a keyboard and which kids can use to learn proper computer programming, not just learning to use software packages.

You can programme it to play games, perform tasks, attach it to a camera or a robot - the only limit is the ingenuity of the

Kids love dinosaurs and it’s amazing how quickly they memorise all those big complicated names.

Sometimes we underestimate just how important that can be, but learning to learn and learning for fun are the two most important skills a child can acquire. Most subjects at school are easier for a child who has learned to learn and it doesn’t matter whether it’s dinosaurs or butterflies or cars or Pokemon characters the trick is the same.

user and the fact that it has to be programmed in code to do what you want it to.

You’re probably thinking “And I bet it costs an arm and a leg these kind of things always do.”

Well actually no. There are two models, costing $25 or $35 plus local taxes and shipping/handling fees (they keep the price in dollars to minimise exchange rate volatility), you’ll need a power lead and an SD card and you’re away.

It’s got to be the best bargain of the year, the kids will love it and they’ll be learning the essential skills for working with computers.

Raspberry Pi all round then.

LEARNING WITH DINOSAURS

One of the nice things about dinosaurs however is that as well as helping kids to memorise, they can also help with building a vocabulary.

Take the simple word dinosaur for example. Once kids have learned that it means “terrible lizard” they’ll start to see a pattern. “Saur” or “saurus” is always lizard so if you take a dinosaur like a stegosaurus you just need to know that “steg” means covered and you have a covered lizard - it refers to the stegosaur’s covering of plates.

How’s that useful? Well if kids also know that “gram” often means writing then when they meet the word stegogram for the first time they’ll probably guess that it means covered writing. (It’s a posh word for a hidden message, like with invisible ink - not a code or cipher.) That’s one example but there are lots more - so next issue we’ll have a look at some more useful words that we could learn from the dinosaurs.

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f course the first thing you’ll need to think about is your domestic heating. Whatever your preferred fuel now’s the time to get the system serviced and inspected, or to have your chimney swept if you favour an open fire.

Make sure you use a qualified engineer if there’s gas involved. There are lots on these pages who we’re happy to recommend, and if you’re in the mood for a change you might want to think about a super stylish modern solid fuel burning stove from the new showroom above Inspirations on Cleethorpes High Street.

Next step - rugs! The modern fashion for laminate floors and tiles is great for looking stylish and keeping clean but it’s awfully cold underfoot and it does nothing to insulate your rooms. Get a big rug to cover the middle and then loads of small ones for the sides of the bed, the conservatory, even the bathroom. Rugs don’t just keep your warm either,

they’re also a way of bringing some cheerful colour into the home, which can make the place feel warm without burning any extra fuel. Go for reds and oranges, deep golds and earthy browns to give your home that snug and cosy feeling.

And then we turn to curtains. There’s nothing more important than for shutting off drafts for keeping a room warm and they can change the look and feel of a room at a stroke. Try our friends at A&D Curtains in St Peter’s Avenue if you’re in need of inspiration, plus of course they can help you out with all those little extra finishing touches that really pull a room together and make it feel extra special.

All of which means that even when the north wind doth blow with a little bit of thought and planning your home can be as warm as toast and still look like a page from a magazine. That’s lovely. Now just excuse me while I butter this crumpet.

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Fashions change, in the building industry as much as anywhere else, and not always for the better, so it’s nice to see that old fashioned English clay tiles have been making a comeback over the past few years, both on new builds and in the renovation sector.

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Nowadays most tiles are still concrete but clay is back in vogue because it’s environmentally sustainable, it’s durable (clay tiles should last 60 years but can last over a hundred), and because there’s a vast range of natural shades and textures to choose from so it looks great on any property in any style.

Proper clay tiles do not need to be coloured artificially with dyes - the colour varies according to subtle variations in the manufacturing process, and of course they change colour as they age, acquiring rich and mellow patinations and shadings.

It’s not just on roofs that the clay tile is coming into it’s own either. Increasingly architects are finding that they’re fantastic for covering vertical surfaces such as walls and gable ends.

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utumn’s here and that means the shops will soon have huge piles of bright orange pumpkins for carving into lanterns because Hallowe’en is on the way. Tradition has it that the carving of veggy lanterns began with turnip lamps in mediaeval Ireland celebrating the festival of Samhain, marking the end of the harvest and the start of winter.

The original Jack o’Lantern, was a farmer called Stingy Jack who outwitted the devil and was given a glowing coal from Hell as a reward. From then on he could often be seen walking through the world at night with it and in fact the name Jack o’Lantern is an alternative to Will o’the Wisp, the strange and unexplained lights which are sometimes seen flickering over marshland.

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Don’t just scoop it out and chuck it away!

Experiment a little and find out just how delicious pumpkin can be.

As the celebration of Samhain died out and All Saint’s Day took its place in the calendar so the tradition migrated from the pagan festival to its Christian replacement but pumpkins didn’t get involved until the 1800’s when they began to be used in America.

Pumpkins are edible squashes and in their native country they’re a delicacy but this side of the Atlantic we’ve never been quite sure about them. When you’ve carved it just what are you supposed to do with all that orange flesh? Bag it up and chuck it away?

In fact there are lots of ways to cook and serve pumpkin and it’s delicious. You could try grating it and using it in place of carrot in your favourite carrot cake recipe, or you could boil it until it’s soft (say about fifteen minutes) and mash it with sugar, cream and spices to make a classic filling for a pumpkin pie (which is really a pumpkin tart).

If savoury is more your thing then just use it in any way that you would use its near relative the butternut squash. It makes a great curry or you can stew it with onions, cream, chicken stock and a little sherry and then blitz for a delicious soup.

Whatever you choose to do with it it’s too good to waste. So have fun this Hallowe’en and then get the pots and pans busy and discover for yourself just how delicious pumpkin can be!

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otorcycling fans had better get their autograph books at the ready because 28th November looks like being a good collecting night at The Central Hall when Habrough based Scott Smith Racing hosts an evening with the stars, including 1987 500cc World Champion Wayne Gardner.

Although he’s an Australian by birth Wayne knows Lincolnshire pretty well - it was his base in the UK before he hit the big time.

Master of Ceremonies for the evening will be 2009 British Supersport champion and double Isle Of Man TT Winner Steve Plater and special guests will include seven times TT winner Mick Grant and twelve times British Champion Roger Marshall.

There’ll be a blind auction in aid of the TT Riders Association and signed memorabilia of all four riders will be available on the night.

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Top up the anti freeze and make sure your coolant level is correct. This is one of the most cost effective

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Winter is the season with the highest number of breakdowns and the greatest number of hours lost to traffic hold ups - because even if you drive carefully and avoid accidents there’s nothing you can do about the other idiots. What you can do is make sure that you don’t get caught by surprise by the bad weather.

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Door locks and seals can suffer in the cold but giving the rubber seals on the doors a wipe with some vaseline will help to prevent door freezing and a squirt of WD40 will keep locks from freezing.

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Ensure your lights are clean and working so that you can see and be seen on those dark commutes. It’s a good idea to carry a spare set of bulbs.

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Texting while driving There’s a reason why it’s illegal. If you’re paying attention to your phone you’re not paying attention to your driving. It’s stupid and it’s dangerous and it really gets us mad.

Tailgating

Failure to indicate

It’s bad manners, it’s intimidating and if the car in front has to break suddenly there’s going to be a shunt and the rear car is going to be considered to be at fault.

Most handbooks recommend leaving a minimum two second gap to the vehicle in front.

It sometimes seems like indicating has gone out of fashion especially at roundabouts! What do they teach them nowadays?

Nothing like it for getting experienced drivers hot under the collar.

Switching lanes in a traffic jam

Dangerous overtaking They come tearing up behind you, launch themselves into a multiple overtake and then they have to lurch back in relying on you to brake for them.

There they go, weaving in and out of the traffic like it was the super giant slalom. Do they really think it gets them to there any quicker?

Utterly baffling.

Hesitation

Undercutting

It’s no bad thing being cautious but some people don’t ever seem to be able to make their minds up.

It’s often people on L and P plates and it’s counterproductive to just start hitting your horn because that won’t help. Patience.

In most circumstances it’s illegal but that doesn’t seem to stop the people in a hurry from gliding through on the inside.

Running the lights

Sudden braking

Some people just seem determined to ride their luck. Ultimately the time will come when it goers pear shaped but until then they honestly think they’re good drivers! Scary.

Especially at traffic lights. I don’t know which are worse. The ones who think amber means speed up to get across (see left) or the ones who think it means slam your anchors on without warning.

Road Rage

Being dopey The dustbin category - for everyone else who annoys us.

Like people so busy listening to the radio that they don’t notice the lights turning green.

Oh yeah, that would be me.

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ot so very long ago the idea of being a fan of Heucheras would have been a bit odd. Everyone knew them, every garden had a few but they were nobody’s favourite.

They were just rather dull plants that served their purpose by filling a gap in the border.

Times change however and plant breeders have transformed the Heucheras (sometimes called Coral Bells) into something of a star turn.

New and exciting cultivars of this plant have come on the market in recent years with ever more vibrant leaf colour, from butterscotch yellows, oranges and lime greens, through to purples, reds and browns.

They are most effective when planted en masse in a border but also can also be used in a planter to bring vibrancy and texture to the garden and they can be grown in baskets and containers for placing on the patio at any time of the year.

Many varieties of Heucheras are almost evergreen and are versatile in both sun and shade and they almost look after themselves making them ideal for the novice gardener.

All in all the new Heucheras are delightful plants for brightening up any part of the garden. They can be grown in full sun or partial shade in soil that has had well rotted manure or compost added prior to planting and as an added bonus, unlike other leafy plants, Heucheras don’t suffer from slug and snail damage.

So happy gardening and next time you’re at the garden centre don’t forget to give the Heucheras a look and let’s brighten those borders!

“heucheras are most effective in a border but also can also be used in a planter to bring vibrancy and texture”

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