Abbey-Link March 2012 by Sarah Gerken

March 2012

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Welcome to your March edition of your Abbey-Link. March is the month when we celebrate Mothers day and if you are thinking of sending your mum some flowers this year then look no further than Plantation Florist - see the front cover. They have some great value offers available, just check out their web site for further details. Body Flair on page 35 are also offering some great offers for Mothers day, and which mother doesn't like a pamper every now and again!! March tends to be the time of year when we start to get back out into our gardens again and if you are wondering where to start why not read the article on page 33 from Garden Delight, telling you what you should be doing tn your garden this month. Once outside, you may also notice that your patios / driveways could do with a clean. Try Jet Clenz on page 20 - a great local company that clean driveways, patios, decking, brick work and much more.

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Manufacturers & Installers of all Types of the Finest Quality of Windows, Doors & Conservatories 41 Kingsmead Abbeymead Gloucester GL4 5DY Telephone: 01452 618530 07961 199942

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Gardening Gardening Tips for March from Garden Delight..

Flowers, Tubs and Borders •

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Prune Hybrid Tea (large flowered) and Floribunda (cluster flowered) roses this month. Do not prune Shrub or Rambler roses as they flower on last year’s wood. Give all roses a good feed Toprose is excellent as it contains trace elements promoting strong growth and good flower production. Herbaceous plants should begin to show signs of growth this month. Scatter some ‘Chicken Pellet’ food around them, fork this in and mulch over with some compost or chippings to keep in them moisture and keep weeds down. Put in supports for the taller growing herbaceous plants tie them up as they grow to give support. Prune Hardy Fuchsia to 6’’ and top dress with compost. Cut back hard the coloured stems on Cornus and Willows this will encourage new growth from the base and keep the plants bushy and give great ‘stem colour’ next winter. Start off Begonias or Gloxinia tubers in trays of compost indoors. Harden the sweet pea seedlings off outside bringing them out as the days warm up ready for planting out at the end of the month to April

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Plant the first of your seed potatoes but keep an eye on the weather and protect any new growth coming through the soil from frosts. As the month progresses sow Broad Beans, Lettuce, Leeks , Parsnips, Peas, Radish, Salad Onions, Spinach and Swish Chard. Then toward the end of the month Sprouts, Red and Summer Cabbage and Dwarf Beans under cloches. As the month warms up spray Peach and Nectarine trees with Dithane 945 to help prevent Peach leaf curl.

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Sow tender bedding plants in trays or propagators under glass. E.g. Busy Lizzies, Marigolds, Petunias, Asters, Salvias, and Nicotiana etc.. Sow Tomatoes, Cucumber, Peppers etc or wait until April to buy the plants from garden centres. Bring Dahlia tubers into growth by placing them in shallow trays of compost. You can take extra cuttings off some of the new growth but be sure to leave plenty to keep growing once they are in the ground.

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If seeding a new lawn this is the time to prepare the area using good loam raked, levelled and firmed as a base for the seeding or laying down good quality turf. Existing lawns will benefit from a combined feed weed and moss killer. Rake and scarify the lawn to get rid of winter debris and aerate with a hollow tine fork if drainage is a problem

Plant of the Month Magnolia Stellata Stellata – most people will know the pink tulip Magnolias which flower in April, but not many gardens are big enough for this medium to large shrub. Stellata – the Star Magnolia makes a very good alternative for the smaller garden, growing to 1.2m high with a similar spread this rounded well branched shrub produces masses of star shaped white fragrant flowers in mid to late March. Fairly easy to grow it makes a great addition to any garden. Check out our web site for more information and a list of the services we offer www.gardendelight.co.uk Disclaimer – these tips are the result of many years experience in gardening however no guarantees can be given. Remember there are principles to successful gardening but no formulas.

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DARREN MANN BUILDING CONTRACTOR Specialising in home extensions

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C.D.L CHRIS LEE PLASTERING CONTRACTOR For all your plastering needs big or small For smoothing over artex, ceilings or walls, To garage conversions Just give me a call 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE INTERNAL & EXTERNAL DOMESTIC / COMMERCIAL LOCAL ABBEYDALE RESIDENT

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Mother’s Day Make your Mum feel Special on March 18th! If you ask any Mother what her favourite Mother’s Day was, it will nearly always include memories of her family being gathered together with her, children’s home-made cards and a family meal. So why has Mother’s Day become such a commercial event nowadays? It’s easy to feel pressurised to show love in terms of expensive presents and over-priced cards. Mother's Day has its origins in the medieval church calendar: it is always the middle Sunday in Lent and was traditionally the day on which people would return to their ‘mother’ church and girls working as maids would be allowed the day off to return to visit their mothers, homes and families. Any gifts they took home were probably limited to a bunch of wild flowers picked on the way or a home-made cake. So why not return to these simpler ideas to make your Mum feel special? It’s often easier today to spend money rather than time on something or someone. Many mothers have in their box of treasured possessions a card (or several!) made by their children when small. Children’s drawings, or their handprints on the card, are just fantastic. No shop-bought card could ever compete with these. But there is no reason why teenagers or adults can’t make cards for their mothers. You don’t have to be a craf ting expert! Draw a picture or use a

photo and write your own words inside, telling your Mum that you love her and why. It’s something she’ll treasure. It takes much more thought and effort to do this than pop into the newsagents and your Mum will know this! As far as gifts go, there is nothing wrong with f lowers f rom your garden. A handpicked daffodil on the breakf ast-in-bed tray is lovelier than a bouquet delivered by a van. And even quite small children are capable of baking cakes, buns or a simple pudding with a little help. Or how about framing a f avourite f amily photo - or a series of three in a row - showing children at different ages and stages? Mother’s Day was traditionally a time for f amily gatherings - but this doesn’t mean you have to book an expensive restaurant or leave one person cooking up a meal for a crowd. Diff erent people can bring different parts of the meal, some one could do the starter, the main course could be split and someone else could do the pudding, making it a joint shared occasion. It doesn’t even have to be lunch; af ternoon tea is also a very good alternative. A variety of sandwiches and little home-made cakes would be wonderf ul! And if you can’t manage any of the above and are far away f rom your Mum on Mother’s Day, just make sure you pick up the phone and tell her how special she is to you and how much you love her.

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Silverdale W.I. The Silverdale W.I started off their new year meeting with a most interesting speaker. Mr Peter Bryant is the Gloucestershire Federation W.I. County Secretary - a most unusual job for a man as Peter explained at the beginning of his talk. His talk was entitled "My Journey to County Secretary" and with the use of a screen Peter showed members how he had progressed from being in the R.A.F. to National Secretary of the Pigeon Fanciers' Association with a detour working for the National Trust on the way. Eventually he interviewed for his present job and, to his surprise got it. For our monthly competition members were asked to bring along their unusual Christmas presents - this provided some very interesting exhibits - the competition being won by Janet Brett with her very royal musical biscuit tin. The vote of thanks was given by Jean Butt who then reminded members that we would not be holding a February meeting owing to problems with our venue. However, we shall meet again on Thursday 15th March at the Hucclecote Methodist Chuirch Hall, Carisbrooke Road, Hucclecote, meeting starting at 10 a,m, Our speaker will be Pam Street on the subject of Women of the Goldrush. All members and visitors welcome.

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Local History

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Spanish For Beginners

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Spanish For Intermediates

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Your quick guide to everyone and everything in your Directory... ACCOUNTANTS Abbeymead Accountancy and Taxation Centre Cash Trac

COMPUTER MAINTENANCE Cotswold Computer Medic Hop-2-it Jemtek

CONSERVATORIES Gloucester Conservatory & Window Warehouse 39 J C Conservatories 21

PLANT TOOL HIRE

COVING SPECIALIST

Chris Lee EJ Plastering

AIRCONDITIONING Charmont

ARCHITECT D2B Designs Paul Karlsson

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ELECTRICIAN

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A D B Electrical Services Bright Sparks Cleevely Electrical T Potter

BATHROOM INSTALLATION R W Bathrooms & Tiling Severn Vale Bathrooms TBS Bathrooms Will Oliver Installations

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BEAUTY THERAPY Body Flair

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Michael Tuck Parkers Estate Agents

FITNESS

Personal Trainer Spirit Health Club

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Debra Law

BUILDING CONTRACTORS Darren Mann

At Hand Services

Portugal Villa

CARPET CLEANING Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning Solutions 14

COMMUNITY CENTRE Abbeydale Sports & Community Centre 23 Brockworth Community Centre 45

COMPLIMENTARY THERAPY Chiropractic & Acupuncture 22 Chiropractic Wellness Centre 42 Remedial Sports 28

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HOLIDAY VILLA

C & G Cladding

Saintbridge Sports Centre Dee & Griffin Treasures Tile Sense

UPHOLSTERER

10 24

LANDSCAPING

32 16 30 6

Acorn Treecare Colin Pattenden

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WINDOW INSTALLATION 11 11 11

LAWNMOWERS

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WINDOW REPAIR 8

LOFT LADDERS 11

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TILES 2

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