Great food & gorgeous flowers
Two evening workshop events with Avon Mill's Deli Manager, Sarah Pope, & Emma Vowles, from Emma Vowles Flowers
17 March 2011 Spring flowers & food & 7 April 2011 Easter flowers & food 6-8pm
More creative ideas for gorgeous flowers and delicious canapes for spring time entertaining. You get to taste Sarah's food and take away the recipes to recreate at home and Emma will inspire you with some stylish new ways with her fabulous flowers. Treat yourself and bring a friend!
Call Sarah at the Deli to book your tickets on 01548 559187 or to e mail us, click here.
Tickets £17.50 per person, per event, non refundable.
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A winter's wonderland - Christmas at Avon Mill 2010
Everything here is looking beautiful and tasting delicious, so come and join us for one of our fabulous festive events...
Late night shopping & alpine suppers
Thursday evenings, 5.30-8.30pm, December 2nd, 9th & 16th
Our Garden Centre, Garden Shop and Deli, as well as Emma Vowles' flower and lifestyle shop open for you to do your Christmas shopping in the peace and tranquility of Avon Mill.
Shopping at Avon Mill is not just for gardeners and plant lovers, although we have plenty of great gift ideas for them. We have presents for all tastes and prefrences, from fabulous chocolates, sloe gin, wines, cookery books, cookware, toiletries, children's garden tools, ceramics and homeware to clothing accessories, jewellery, contemporary artwork and a whole lot more.
Whilst you are here, visit the Deli to place your special order for your Christmas entertaining. The Deli can also take your bespoke gift order, your personal gift selection. You decide how much you wish to spend and choose the items, the Deli does the rest, to create a beautifully presented, personalised gift.
We have everything that you need to dress your house for the festive season....Christmas trees, tree lights, decorations and baubles, candles, holly, mistletoe, Christmas garlands, gorgeous cut flowers, poinsettias and cyclamen. And Christmas cards too.
Don't miss a visit to our 'Ski Lodge' for something deliciously alpine to keep you warm and nourished. Our cafe is open exclusively for the late nights when we will whisk you off to an alpine ski lodge, without even having to board a plane!
So come and dip your bread into a cheese fondue or pop a marshmallow into a chocolate one. Enjoy bratwurst, meatballs, smorgasboard, crepes, gingerbread, stollen, goulash, biere, schnapps, gluewein and hot chocolate. Drop in on the night or call the Ski Lodge to reserve a table on 01548 550066. Open until 9pm. Bon appetit.
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Everything to dress your house at Christmas...
christmas tree weekends
Sat 4 & Sun 5 December and Sat 11 & Sun 12 December
Come and choose your Christmas tree from our fantastic selection. We have trees in every shape and size, well more or less! From Fraser Firs to traditional Norway Spruce. It's a family tradition that you cannot miss and there's nothing like the smell of a fresh fir tree in your house. Enjoy roasted chestnuts and complimentary mulled wine. Keep your little ones amused at our 'festive activity table'.
We'll also have tree stands, tree lights, tree decorations, poinsettias, cyclamen, Christmas wreaths and garlands, holly, mistletoe and a whole lot more.
Our Cafe is open for mince pies and more mulled wine, and other festive treats, as well as its usual menu. Why not have a lazy lie-in on Sunday and then come for brunch?
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Festive Food & Flowers
Thursday 25 November & Thursday 7 December, 6.30-8.30pm
An evening of festive inspiration. Delicious canapes and drinks in the Deli, followed by a demonstratrion of stunning, seasonal flowers from Emma Vowles, in her flower and lifestyle shop. Both shops are open for you to make purchases whilst you are here. You get to take away the canape recipes to recreate at home.
Tickets £15.00 pp. Call Sarah Pope at the Deli on 01548 559187.
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Gardening with the experts:
'Garden pests & diseases. How to deal with them'
with Jenny & Ali, Avon Mill's own expert team 27 June 2010, 10-5pm
Our own garden centre experts are on hand all day long to help diagnose your garden pests and diseases. So bring your specimens along, contained if mobile, and find out how to deal with them!
We will have some examples on display, together with the appropriate remedy, so come and see if you can spot the source, and cure, for your offending garden intruder or unwelcome guest and return your plants to glowing health.
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Gardening with the experts:
'Irrigation systems made simple' with Dean Franklin
5 July 2010, 2-4pm
Claber, ' the masters of water', are here to demystify the 'ins and outs' of garden irrigation systems. So, your plants can be watered, without waste, and at the optimum time, even if you are not around.
Perfect for greenhouses, hanging baskets, pots, containers, vegetable plots and allotments. Ideal for garden lovers who are away from home and for use in second/holiday homes.
Come along, talk to an expert, see the systems being demonstrated and find out all you ever wanted to know about garden watering systems!
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Gardening with the experts:
'Coastal Gardening' with Jo Stopher
Tues 3 August, 2010, 11am - 2pm
Located close to the coast, our garden centre has always offered a range of trees, shrubs and plants to cope with local maritime weather and coastal soil conditions. We've linked up today with landscape designer Jo Stopher, of Stopher Design Partnership, who will be here to inspire you with ideas for your own seaside garden and to answer your questions about coastal gardening. And of course offer some solutions to help protect your garden from wind, salt and sand!
Designer of fabulous coastal gardens along the South Hams coast, Jo will motivate you with her knowledge and enthusiasm. We will also have available a range of plants and other products to give your garden that distinctive coastal feel.
Jo will be around the Cafe throughout the lunchtime period too, so do feel free to go up and chat to her. Why not stay on and have lunch whilst you are here? May be some tasty, coastal crab sandwiches?
If you have young children in tow, don't worry, we'll have some supervised activities to occupy them whilst you are here. Or may be another family member will take them on a walk through the nearby Avon Valley woods or for a picnic in the lovely grounds of Avon Mill, by the river.
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Dogs on show at Avon Mill
Sunday 8 August 2010 2 pm - register from 12 noon
Following the success of last autumn's family dog show at Avon Mill Garden Centre, we're hosting a 'Companion Dog Show' in aid of Animals in Distress, Ipplepen, here on the afternoon of Sunday 8th August 2010. Judging by expert Liz Roe (Pirospont).
For those not in the know, a 'Companion Dog Show' is registered by the Kennel Club and held under its rules and regulations, but anyone can enter their dog and there are all the usual show and fun classes. Entry is on the day and with show schedules available from this site in July 2010.
So make a diary note and come along and have a look around our beautiful garden centre and then have lunch in our cafe, to settle your stomach before the show! Or stop for one of our famous Devon cream teas before heading for home.
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Festival of Autumn
Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 October 2010 9.30am-5pm
October, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Time to celebrate all things autumnal. So come along to our ever popular Autumn Festiva. Apples, pumpkins, cider making, willow weaving, vintage tractors, steam engines, crafts, story telling and much more.
Food tastings in the Deli, seasonal flowers and gifts in Emma Vowles’ flower shop, bulbs and autumn bedding in the Garden Centre and a heart warming lunch in the Café.
Innundated with apples? Then bring these along to the apple-press, with a container, and take away your own, freshly squeezed apple juice. Sunday only.
Bring the children along on Sunday to listen to Clive Fairweather's magical story-telling.
Feeling creative? Then try your hand at willow weaving on Saturday with Angela Holland. Fun for children and adults alike.
Food tastings include Quickes Cheese, Curworthy Cheese, Salcombe Dairy, Midfields Granola, Devon Juicer, Devon Honey, Kays Cakes (gluten free), Curry Tree spices, Curry Leaves' ready made curries and Sampford Courtney Cider.
May be walk the dog along the river amidst the falling leaves in nearby Loddiswell Woods. Then, once exercised, entertained and fed, head for home and a well deserved rest by the fire. Bliss! Free admission. Dogs welcome. Click here for more autumn festival fun.
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