Events: What’s On This Week
Plant and garden fair at the Bowes Museum
Sunday, 18 May 2008
PLANT AND GARDEN FAIR AT THE BOWES MUSEUM
18 May 2008
The stunning grounds of The Bowes Museum will be the venue for a Plant and Garden Fair on Sunday 18 May from 10.00 – 4.00.
This free annual outdoor event will offer a wide variety of horticultural goods for green-fingered enthusiasts. The stallholders will be setting up their wares on the terrace of the Museum, selling alpines, heathers, shrubs, perennials, herbaceous, roses, climbers, vegetable plants, patio plants suitable for tubs and barrels, fruit trees, bedding plants, begonias and geraniums. Planted hanging baskets, some in novelty shapes, will add to the riot of colour.
All of this will be complemented with a range of handcrafted, creative outside garden furniture, ornaments, candle burners and sculptures.
Durham Wildlife Trust will be in attendance, to provide information on the area. Also on site will be Teesdale District Council to inform how to go green.
Complementing this opportunity to stock up on outdoor garden paraphernalia is a seasonal collection of wildlife paintings within the Museum on display for the summer from 17th May. Paintings by Archibald Thorburn, Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, John Cyril Harrison and their contemporaries illustrate some of the country’s best-loved birds and wild animals. These artists spent many hours field-sketching, gathering reference material on a particular species, their habits and environment, capturing scenes such as birds hunting their prey, the tranquillity of a snipe wading in marshland and the extraordinary display of magpies roosting.
