GODALMING, England, September 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Work has started to create a new Garden of Reflection from scratch for Crawley District Scouts, thanks to a donation of £10,000 from Scotts Miracle-Gro. This is the next garden in our GRO1000 Community Outreach Programme[1].
When complete, the garden will be used by the scouts for many of their ceremonies and activities. It will be a peaceful area for the scouts, their families and other members of their communities to come and be in beautiful and serene surroundings to spend peaceful moments and take time to reflect on the world around them. It will also be somewhere they can plant memorial trees to celebrate members of the Scouts organisation who are sadly no longer with us.
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The woodland site at Stanford Scout Camp Site is now experiencing a period of frenzied activity, as a team of more than 50 dedicated members of Crawley District Scouts and other volunteers start the clearing and building work.
Co-sponsor, AVS Fencing Supplies, has supplied more than £4,000 of landscaping materials needed to create the garden. Lawsons Builders Merchants are also on board to provide further items needed in the garden. And, thanks to DJ Haulage in Shipley Bridge, all the topsoil needed to fill the raised beds and create a luxurious lawn is also all ready to go.
Once the ground is leveled and the hard landscaping is installed, Scotts Miracle-Gro will also provide all the products needed to maintain the garden and help keep it looking brilliant.
The garden will feature raised beds, flower borders, a decked area with gazebo and seating, a patio for growing plants in containers and a ceremonial area that includes the Scout fleur-de-lis emblem crafted from coloured slate.
Kevin Ives, the Scouts' Deputy District Commissioner Crawley, said: "We are extremely grateful to Scotts Miracle-Gro for helping us create this fabulous garden. It will provide a superb area for the scouts and is something we have wanted for ages."
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Top: Kevin Ives, the Scouts' Deputy District Commissioner Crawley (left) Jayne Dalton, Scout Leader, and Nick Dalton, Scout Leader, accept the £10,000 cheque from Steve Dalton and Amy Drudge from Scotts Miracle-Gro, in front of the first delivery of landscape materials, donated by co-sponsor, AVS Fencing Supplies.
Bottom: AVS Fencing Supplies delivers the hard landscaping materials.
Through our Community Outreach Programme, we encourage people to discover the joys of gardening for themselves and helping them take pleasure in all the benefits that this beneficial activity brings. We also support charities that use gardening and horticulture as a source of therapy, helping to improve people's lives and rehabilitation into the modern world.
(1) Our donation is part of GRO1000, a community outreach initiative launched by The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company USA in 2011. GRO1000 will result in the creation of 1,000 community gardens and green spaces by 2018 - the company's 150th anniversary.
You can see more at: http://www.grogood.com/GiveBackToGro/Gro1000
Go online
For information on Scotts Miracle-Gro, visit lovethegarden.com
Further information
For further information and hi-res images, contact Geoff Hodge, PR Officer for The Scotts Company (UK) Ltd on +44(0)1733-762042, mobile +44(0)7867-970754, geoff.hodge@scotts.com
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