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White Horse Gardening Club Next meeting 4th April
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:-
- White Horse Gardening Club
- or email: [email protected]
Further information: Pamela - [email protected]