Travelsleuth's Diary: September Garden Shows

Diary Notes
. Game and Country Fair. 6-8 September, Three Counties Showground, Malvern, Worcestershire. Rural get-together with the Squire. Chance your arm at fly casting, clay pigeon shooting and geese herding and sample a game pie or two. Tel: 01684 893003.
National Surfing Championships 6-8 September, Croyde Bay Devon. Tel: 01736 360250.

Diary Memo
Book now for Cheltenham Gold Cup, (March); Badminton Horse Trials, (May); RHS Chelsea Flower Show, (May); Stella Artois Tennis Tournament, Queen's Club, (June); Wimbledon's ballot opens for Centre Court seats, (June/July).

Related Gardening Sites
The Travelsleuth's Horticultural Pages.
"God Almighty first planted a garden; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment of the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks". Francis Bacon, (1561-1626). Links to British horticultural societies, shows & events, nurseries, gardens & gardening.

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National Amateur Gardening Show DATE: 6 - 8 September, 2002.
VENUE:The Showground, Shepton Mallet, Somerset BA4 6QN
GETTING THERE: The Royal Bath and West Showground is just south of Shepton Mallet, Somerset, between the A37 and A371. The nearest railway station is Castle Cary (London, Bristol and Penzance to Castle Cary Station). Special buses come from Bath, Bristol & Wells. Contact Badgerline Ticket Hotline: 01225 481318. Coaches arrive from Shepton Mallet; tel: 01963 33124.
TICKETS: Order online at www.bathandwest.co.uk/gardeningshow/ordertickets.html Adults £8.50; Senior Citizens/Disabled £7.50; Under 16 Free. Telephone ticket hotline: 01749 822222.
DRESS: There is no dress code.
ACCOMMODATION: Connoisseur's Choice in this most beautiful area of the West Country is a superb rural B&B hideaway near the showground:
Pennard House, East Pennard, Shepton Mallet BA4 6TP; tel 01749 860266; fax: 01749 860266; email: susie.d.@ukonline.co.uk.
B&B. I discovered this beautiful Georgian manor a few years ago on a visit to Glastonbury Tor with my Lady. The house is adorned with Virginia Creeper and fronted by a fragrant "ha-ha" wall of climbing roses. It is lovingly furnished with antiques and stands in secluded gardens with Victorian pool on a south-facing slope of the Mendip Hills. It is surrounded by meadows, ancient woodland copses & old Somerset cider orchards, (which bring back joyful memories of a misspent youth scrumping apples from the orchard backing onto grandmama's village shop). Traditional country pubs serve excellent food nearby. This is an excellent and

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