# Charity wins best in show garden at Tatton Park

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/07/17/charity-wins-best-show-garden-tatton-park/
- Published: 2007-07-17T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Anthony Nolan Trust garden has been awarded the best in show garden at The Royal
Horticultural Society’s Tatton Park show. Designed by newcomer to Tatton, Heather
Appleton, the bubble garden is inspired by a photograph of charity founder Shirley
Nolan blowing bubbles with her son Anthony.
A team of volunteers built the garden
over a three-week period and almost all materials and plants are donated or loaned.
Asa result this project cost less than £5,000. Heather Appleton, of Thursk, won 
an Anthony Nolan competition to design the garden.

Mrs Appleton said: “It was the first time I had entered the competition and I was
shocked to do so well. The inspiration came from a picture I saw of Anthony Nolan
blowing bubbles with his mother, Shirley, in the 1970s. The idea was in my head 
for a while but once I came to actually design the garden it was a quick process.”

The garden, while reminding visitors of the origin of the charity and its importance
to the bone barrow donor register, is intended “to bring joy and stimulate conversation”.
All the structures have calming curves, the focal point being the calm circular 
area in the centre.

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Cheshire Building Society sponsored the garden and has been a long-term supporter
of the Anthony Nolan Trust, including holding donor recruitment clinics at their
head office in Macclesfield.

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