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November 16, 2013

www.thackwoodcottage.co.nz

Local garden supports the Nelson Regional Breast Cancer Trust with open day.

North Nelson’s Thackwood Garden, nestled in a fourth generation, 300 acre Farm, in Wakapuaka opens to the public on Sunday 24th November as a fundraiser for the Nelson Regional Breast Cancer Trust.

Earlier this year, Thackwood Garden earned the accolade of “Garden of National Significance” from the New Zealand Gardens Trust, placing it in the same category as both Auckland Botanic Gardens and the Government House Gardens in Wellington.

Owners, Karen and Murray Gill take great pleasure in sharing their labour of love with others, and have quite literally opened their garden gate for charitable causes on several occasions in the past. They are inviting locals to visit their garden this Sunday, encouraging them to bring a picnic and stay a while; all they ask in return is a donation to the Nelson Regional Breast Cancer Trust.

Mrs Gill says, “The Nelson Regional Breast Cancer Trust is a charitable cause very close to my heart, I have good friends here in Nelson who have survived breast cancer, and I appreciate that this organisation is a local trust, that raises funds that stay in our community”. She continues, “I believe it’s important to support the good work this local charity does, and this is a way I feel that my husband, Murray, and I can help”.

Thackwood Garden is open from 10.00 a.m. until 4.00 p.m. on Sunday 24th November.

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