Gardeners charged up on green delivery

Carbon footprint van-ishing at New Hopetoun Gardens

MORE THAN just a garden centre, New Hopetoun Gardens to the west of Edinburgh was established over 40 years ago and is one of Edinburgh’s best stocked garden centres with a focus on quality, variety, choice and sustainability!

At New Hopetoun Eco-friendly thinking is encouraged before you even set foot inside the employee-owned garden centre. Green fingered visitors can drop off their unwanted plastic pots to be recycled into reusable plastics or other gardeners can help themselves to give the pots new life, if they wish.

With the world’s eyes on sustainability, New Hopetoun Gardens ethos of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is stronger than ever and have recently invested in a new all-electric, zero-emissions delivery van to reducing their carbon footprint further while helping Scottish gardeners keep their homes and gardens green.

New Hopetoun Gardens are driven by a passion to help their visitors get the most of their gardens throughout the year and have a mammoth selection of “Purple Piglet Projects” offering practical advice and inspiration such as turning your garden into a haven for bees or providing a sanctuary for birds during the winter months.

Although New Hopetoun Gardens are striving to become even greener, some of their recycling initiatives have been up and running for many years. They have been collecting broken and unwanted hand tools at the garden centre since 2012. These tools will be repaired at prison workshops in Edinburgh and given a new lease of life in community gardening projects.

New Hopetoun Gardens is open 7 days a week from 10am to 5pm www.newhopetoungardens.co.uk