Meet the Garden Gang

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At the age of 9 years, Jayne was the youngest author to ever write for Ladybird Books. [2] [3] Her writing and illustrating has been an inspiration to others. [4] [5] Books [ edit ]

Written by Jayne Fisher, the Garden Gang series were small books that each featured two stories about a fruit or vegetable like Penelope Strawberry or Roger Radish. If any of this has whetted your appetite for visiting a garden or two, then get in touch and give us a go. An outline of the programme for the first half of 2020 was revealed, including trips to see snowdrops at Finlaystone and daffodils at Greenbank, plus a visit to Horatio’s Garden at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, scheduled for June.The Garden Gang was established in October 2019, originally under the somewhat longer name of The Garden Appreciation Group. However, on asking the members for a snappier title several were submitted, and in a vote ‘The Garden Gang’ proved to be the favourite. The Garden Gang was a series of books for children written by Jayne Fisher. They were published by Ladybird Books during the late 1970s and early 1980s as Series 413 and later re-issued as Series 793. [1] Fourteen story books were written, each containing two short stories about a group of characters who were fruit and vegetables living an almost human life, selling over 8 million copies [ citation needed]. In addition to the fourteen story books, there were also three other books - an annual and two colouring books. Fisher's books were not dissimilar to the popular Munch Bunch series, also devised by a young girl, the fourteen-year-old Angela Mitson. [ citation needed]

First is news about two Easter TV programmes that you could tune into. On Friday, which is of course Good Friday, at 1.40pm on BBC 1 you can watch 'Alexander Armstrong's Heavenly Gardens'. This is the first of two programmes over which Armstrong will visit six gardens of reflection and contemplation. The first three can be seen in this show - Sudeley Castle, Pluscarden Abbey and Cambridge University. And on Easter Sunday the second programme will air at 1.50pm and will feature, among others, the garden of the Bishop's Palace at Wells in Somerset. And the good news is that I have been in touch with them, and we will be given an introduction to the gardens by Dougal Philip, the original founder of the business!On Wednesday, 11th December the Garden Gang gathered in the upstairs room at Fairfull’s Café for our second ‘proper’ meeting.