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National Trust open castle grounds to raise funds for gardeners 
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Wednesday, July 16 2008 17:19:07 by Alison Patel
Alison Patel writes: The gardens at Sizergh Castle will be opened by the National Trust to help raise money for the organisation's National Gardens Scheme, the Westmorland Gazette has reported.
Sizergh garden's will be open to the public this Saturday (July 19th), and the Trust hopes that their scheme will help to highlight the shortage of skilled gardeners in the heritage gardening industry.
National Trust hope the opening of the garden will also provide an opportunity to promote its Careership Gardening Scheme which provides the sector with qualified graduate gardeners to help bridge the gap.
Talking about the program, head gardener at Sizergh Castle Garden and former Careership trainee, John Hawley, said: "In recent years the heritage sector has been particularly hard hit by the decline in qualified gardeners which is why our Careership training programme is so important."
He continued: "The National Gardens Scheme has supported the National Trust for 50 years and in the last seven years has donated around £190,000 a year to this particular training scheme."
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