Blooming Marvellous at UCF

Friday, 24 April 2009

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LtoR: Matt Lewis, Sara Benney, David Garwood, Kevin Bayliss and Paul Watson of the TCS gardening team with CHSW volunteers, Mary Miller and Wendy Gray
The gardening team from Tremough Campus Services planted 1000 daffodil bulbs in aid of the Children's Hospice South West's (CHSW) Precious Lives Appeal last November and Wendy Gray and Mary Miller from CHSW recently revisited Tremough to witness the dazzling display of colour created by this living testament to the children they support.

Led by Head Gardener, David Garwood, the gardening team also made their debut at this year's Falmouth Flower Show, scooping first prize in the Double or semi-double flowered Camellia class, gaining one second prize, two third prizes and two highly commended certificates along the way.

One of the 300 species of Rhododendron at Tremough There are more than 300 species of rhododendron at Tremough, and the collection includes many hybrids as well as original species from India. With the assistance of Duchy College's Head of Propogation, Ros Smith; Trebah Garden's Head Gardener, Darren Dickey; Former curator of collections for the Lost Gardens of Heligan, Bee Robson; the National Trust and the Cornwall Rhododendron Society, these rare and nationally important plants are being identified, catalogued and propagated to maintain and enhance Tremough's spectacular collection for future generations to enjoy.

University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.

This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012, that will be unique to the South West.

The College is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union, the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.

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For further information about University College Falmouth, please contact Jilly Easterby MCIPR, Head of Public Affairs, Telephone: 01326 213792; or email: jilly.easterby@falmouth.ac.uk

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