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Meeting Details

FrequencyMonthly
Time10.00 am
DayMonday
Duration2 hours
LocationMembers' gardens
CoordinatorYvonne Langhorne & Suzanne Graham

What we do

We meet on the first Monday of every month in a different member’s garden, swap advice, plants, seeds and produce. We have a mix of experienced and less experienced gardeners and it has been both interesting and inspiring.  However, with 17 members this group is now over full.

Reports

March 2013

Winter is the quiet time for Gardening Groups everywhere and our Group is no exception. We had no meeting in January and in February we met to look at members slides of either their own gardens or gardens which they had visited. In March, the theme of our meeting was Snowdrops and members contributed with factual information, poems and legends about snowdrops as well as bringing snowdrop plants – this proved to be a surprisingly successful meeting.
We are very fortunate in our Group to have a retired professional gardener who presents “ Gardening Topical Tips” each month which has been and is extremely useful. Having said this, one of the joys of belonging to a Gardening Group is that members also have the opportunity to get ideas , advice and inspiration from one another.

Suzanne Graham

July 2012

Since the last newsletter. our Group has visited members’ Gardens and Boars Hill which has the first garden ever designed by Thomas Mawson.

Our Group has 19 members so unfortunately has no room for new members at present.

Suzanne Graham

March 2012

This summer we plan to visit various gardens in the local area – mainly members gardens but we also plan to visit Stagshaw NT garden and Holehird.

Suzanne Graham