Black Country News: Success has bloomed for Pam; OLDBURY.A GREEN-fingered council tenant is celebrating the fruits of her labours after scooping Sandwell Homes' annual gardening competition for the second year in a row. Green-fingered Pam Smith, of Abbey abbey, monastic house, especially among Benedictines and Cistercians, consisting of not less than 12 monks or nuns ruled by an abbot or abbess. Many abbeys were originally self-supporting. In the Benedictine expansion after the 8th cent. Crescent crescent, emblematic representation of the quarter moon. The crescent and star, ancient Byzantine symbols that became the emblems of Constantinople, were also assumed as the standard of the Ottoman Turks. , Oldbury, was handed the pounds 150 first prize for her efforts. The judges loved her garden with its ornamental pond and fountain, oriental-inspired quiet corner, patio patio In Spanish and Latin American architecture, a courtyard open to the sky within a building. A Spanish development of the Roman atrium, it is comparable to the Italian cortile but provides more seclusion, possibly due to Moorish custom. The patio of the contemporary U.S. pots and hanging baskets. And not content with working magic in her own back garden, Pam also looks after her disabled neighbour's garden too. Pam really got to work on the garden in 1993 after her father died. She said:" I am thrilled thrill v. thrilled, thrill·ing, thrills v.tr. 1. To cause to feel a sudden intense sensation; excite greatly. 2. To give great pleasure to; delight. See Synonyms at enrapture. to have won the competition for the second year running, I was concerned that the awful weather we have experienced lately would mean the garden would be past its best by the time the judges came to visit but it came through for me." |
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