Cool Springs Press founded National Gardening Day on April 14 in 2018 to encourage people to start gardening and learn more about the practice. The date was chosen because it aligns with the peak spring gardening season, offering an ideal time for people to get outside and start planting.
Our first speaker John will be joining us from Northern Ireland and our second speaker Scott all the way from Canada!
John, originally from England who has made his home in Carrickfergus for 36 years, will talk about his joy of gardening through good times and adversity and how it turned from a past time to a way of life.
Scott’s profession was as a Land Surveyor and currently co-hosts Let’s Get Gardening on Zoom once a week for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. The show started in the first year of Covid, giving new and experienced gardeners alike a chance to learn and chat about things they are growing, want to grow and the challenges of doing this with a visual impairment or complete blindness.
Scott has been gardening since the age of 13, originally just vegetables and fruit but then got into landscaping, brick work, retaining walls and pathways, etc.
This group gives you the opportunity to share your stories, tips, hints and advice around all things home & garden from DIY & decorating to planting flowers & mowing the lawn.
Please come and join us to hear from John & Scott and ask any questions you may have. Share your knowledge, top tips as well as the opportunity to learn from other like-minded dwellers across the UK to empower independence and promote confidence that even living with sight loss you too can complete projects where you can proudly say “I did that” and have a home & garden you can call your own.