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White Horse Gardening Club Next meeting 4th April

on Thu, 04/04/2024 - 7:00pm

Meetings are usually in the Thomas Hughes Memorial Hall, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7RA.

Meetings held on the 1st Thursday of the month at 7.30pm, unless otherwise stated.

Membership £15 per annum. Visitors £5.00 per meeting.

Next meeting April 4th

 

2024 programme

Thursday 4th APRIL

TALK :  Hidden Gardens of the Cotswold

By Victoria Summerley 

Thursday 2nd MAY

TALK   -   Dahlias for the Garden

By Steven Edney

Garden consultant, garden designer, nurseryman, RHS herbaceous committee member, Chelsea gold 2019. No Name Nursery.  www.doddingtonplacegardens.co.uk

Saturday 18th MAY

10am – 1pm PLANT SALE TRAIL

Thursday 6th JUNE at 6pm

VISIT - Kingstone Lisle Gardens.  Summer Social event.

Three gardens: 1.  Fiona & Julian Browne, Little Court 2. Sally & Tessa Good, Hilltop 3. Cara & Mark Richardson, Dower House.

Refreshments served in Janey Nelson's garden at Peartree Cottage.

Thursday 13th JUNE

TALK – Gardening with Ornamental Grasses

By Katherine Crouch,   Chelsea Gold Medal Winner.  www.katherinecrouch.com

 “Gardens are in my blood and also under my fingernails”

Tuesday 18th JUNE at 2pm

VISIT:- Rachel Siegfried of the Green and Gorgeous, near Wallingford

Min 15 people.   £15 pp to include a tour, flower arranging demonstration of 20 mins followed by drinks/biscuits

The garden tour comprises of a walk around the fields and tunnels which are about four acres. This can take a good 45 minutes to look at the hundreds of varieties grown. The ground is flat with mown grass and a main concrete path. To round off there are plants, seeds and a few cut flowers to buy.  The whole experience is usually about 2 hours.

Thursday 4th JULY at 2pm

VISIT - Ham Court, Bampton, Weald, OX18 2HG  

Tour and refreshments.  £5 cash on day.  Max 30.

Home to Matthew Rice and Emma Bridgewater.

Ham Court is a country garden with two kitchen gardens around a moated, former gate house of a 14th-century castle in Oxfordshire. It is around four acres of ornamental garden.

AUGUST – free

Thursday 5th SEPTEMBER

AGM and

TALK – Title tbc

By Bob Flowerdew

Visitors £10

Thursday 3rd OCTOBER

TALK   - 52 Weeks of Shade Loving Plants

By Moore and Moore Plants.  www.mooreandmooreplants.co.uk

A Chelsea Gold Medal winning independent, family run nursery based in Billericay, Essex. Specialising in shade tolerant and woodland plants.

Thursday 7th NOVEMBER

TALK    ADVENTURES OF A SEED DETECTIVE

By Adam Alexander 

Seeds to share + copies of book ‘The Seed Detective’

theseeddetective.co.uk   twitter: @vegoutwithadam

Instagram: theseeddetective

Thursday 5th DECEMBER

XMAS MEETING and

TALK:  The Twelve Plants of Christmas

By Timothy Walker, Lecturer, botanist, gardener, author.

Contact Pamela P to find out more:-

 


 

 

Further information: Pamela - [email protected]