Acknowledgements

THE GARDEN.....
Special thanks to go my brother and his wife (Malcolm & Kath) for their help with extending the grasses bed; to Kath for her help in the initial design of the garden; and to Malcolm for his patience and perfection in building the dry-stone wall at the back of the garden.

AF Garden Solutions (main design and major work on the garden)
All-in-One Garden Centre (wooden archway)
Ashton Park Garden Centre (garden lanterns)
Benchmark Building Supplies Ltd (Indian stone for wall, gravel, cobbles round lawn edges)
Bents Garden Centre (bistro table and chairs for teahouse)
B&Q (shed paint)
Cheshire Hanging Baskets & Garden Centre (golden gravel on hosta and grasses beds)
Daisy Nook Garden Centre (two-seater table set and garden umbrella)
Decking (at back of pond and garage) – John Hulton (Tel: 07879 084172)
Home Gorilla - e-Bay (oriential teahouse)
Lymefield Garden Centre (border soil, gravel and purple slate for front garden)
Marple Garden Centre (iron trellis for clematis)
Newbank Garden Centre (driftwood & ferns)
Printbase Ltd (labelling tapes)
Staples (labelling machine)
The Essentials Company (garden labels)
Waltons (the shed)

Acers
All-in-one Garden Centre
Ashton Park Garden Centre
B&Q
Broadway Road Plants
Gordon Riggs
Hippopottering Japanese Maple Nursery
Marple Garden Centre
Newbank Garden Centre
Norfield Nurseries

Alpines
Marple Garden Centre
Newbank Garden Centre, Radcliffe
Slack Top Nurseries

Azaleas
Armitage's Garden Centre

Dahlias
Harrogate Spring Flower Show 2013 (unable to remember suppliers name!)

Grasses
Eversley Nursery

Heucheras
DB Garden Nurseries, Nursery Road, off Dukinfield Road, Hyde, SK14 4PD – Tel: 0161 368 3008 or 07970 97503
Bents Garden Centre
Heucheraholics

Hostas
B&Q
Bowden Hostas
DB Garden Nurseries, Nursery Road, off Dukinfield Road, Hyde, SK14 4PD – Tel: 0161 368 3008 or 07970 975031
Eureka Animal Feeds (crushed oyster shell to prevent slugs and snails)
Mickfield Hostas
Sue Proctor Plants

Magnolias & Miscellaneous
Ashton Park Garden Centre (Alpines)
Bents Garden Centre (Magnolias, Gingko)
Daisy Nook (Bamboo)
Marple Garden Centre (Clematis)

Miscellaneous
DB Garden Nurseries (Poppy)
Marple Garden Centre (Kangaroo Paw)

Rhododendrons
Slack Top Nurseries (Rhododrendons)

THE PATIO
Beautiful Paving (for laying the patio, steps and retaining walls)
Bents Garden Centre (garden table and chairs)
B&Q (glass bricks)
Cheshire Drive Clean (cleaning patio and tea-house floor)
mad4aquatics (pond lights for patio lights)

THE GREENHOUSE
B&Q (storage cupboard)

THE POND
In addition to the following companies thanks go to :
• Josh Langton and Ryan for their help in digging out the pond and barrowing the spoil down the side of the house to
   the skip; also to Josh for providing a van and helping Mike to collect the filters
• Malcolm & Kath for their help with dropping the box-welded liner into place
• Paul Rodgers for collecting the polystyrene insulation boards from Selco

Finally, special thanks to Mike for all his hard work and building the pond and setting up all the filtration and pipework single-handedly.

Benchmark Building Supplies Ltd (sand, cement, concrete blocks, coping stones, glue)
B&Q (pipe fittings)
Cascade Water Gardens (UV steriliser)
Crystal Clear Ponds (heat pump)
Evolution Aqua (sieve and Pure Pond)
Knowles Bros (skip hire)
Kockney Koi (UV steriliser)
Plumb Centre (pipe fittings)
Poolkoi (pipe fittings, vortex units and sieve)
Russetts Developments Ltd (liner and pump)
Selco Builders Warehouse (polystyrene insulation boards)
Swell UK (pipe fittings)
Your Koi (koi)

BOOKS
Black Plants by Paul Bonine (ISBN-13: 978-0-88192-981-2
The Book of Little Hostas by Kathy Guest Shadrack & Michael Shadrack (ISBN-13: 978-1-60460-060-6)
The New Encyclopedia of Hostas by Diana Grenfell & Michael Shadrack (ISBN-13: 978-0-88192-960-7)
The Royal Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants (ISBN-978-1-40533-296-5)
Timber Press Pocket Guide to Bamboos by Ted Jordan Meredith (ISBN-13: 978-0-88192-936-2)
Timber Press Pocket Guide to Japanese Maple by J. D. Vertrees (ISBN-13: 978-0-88192-799-3 )

MAGAZINES
Gardeners' World magazine
Koi Carp magazine

SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook: Gardeners' World Magazine
Facebook: Hungry for Hostas (UK)

SOCIETIES
British Hosta and Hemerocallis Society
RHS (Royal Horticultural Society)

And finally.................. thanks to our good friend Gill Haywood for proofreading this website!

GARDENS TO VISIT
Benmore Botanic Garden, Dunoon, Argyll, Scotland
Crarae Garden, Argyll, Scotland
Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Glasgow, Scotland

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