Meetings
Sep 9th 2022- GARY LEAVER OF AVONDALE NURSERY "PERENNIALS FOR LATE SEASON COLOUR"
A look at a range of perennial plants to add colour to your garden in late summer and early autumn.
Oct 14th 2022 - COLIN WARD
"FERNS - PROPAGATION, VARIETIES & HUSBANDRY"
"FERNS - PROPAGATION, VARIETIES & HUSBANDRY"
A talk on ferns on propagation, husbandry and varieties and use with other plants.
Plants for Sale
Nov 11th 2022 - KEVIN PRATT
"RARE & PICTORIAL PLANTS"
"RARE & PICTORIAL PLANTS"
A mix of unusual strange flowering plants and a few plants people may like to try to grow. All the plants grow in his garden in Stockport; Ariaema, Helwingia, Fritillaria, Stachyurus, Lysionotus, Eucomis etc. This talk covers bulbs, climbers, herbaceous shrubs and trees.
https://gardentalks.wordpress.com/
Dec 9th 2022 - Christmas Party & Speaker TRACEY LLOYD FROM WINDMILL COMMUNITY GARDENS
“WINDMILL COMMUNITY GARDENS - our charitable donation choice 2022”
“WINDMILL COMMUNITY GARDENS - our charitable donation choice 2022”
Tracey will talk about the Community Gardens and our donation.
www.facebook.com/Windmill-Community-Gardens-349991251778038
We also hope to have some fun and games and Festive Nibbles!
Jan 13th 2023 GRAHAM SPENCER "NEW PLANTS - THE FUTURE FOR YOUR GARDEN"
THIS MEETING WILL BE ON ZOOM - details of how to join us will follow in due course
"All gardeners get excited by the prospect of a new plant. This talk provides an opportunity to get excited by recent introductions and by plants that have not yet been launched.
In this talk, Graham gives an insight into the new plant development process, including a brief introduction to Plant Variety Rights and the commercial aspects of new variety development, as well as a discussion of the qualities required to make a new plant a success. This is followed by an illustrated discussion of some of the new plants that have recently been introduced or are about to be launched through Plants For Europe – which inevitably gets the note-takers in the audience scribbling in their pads!"
Feb 10th DON WITTON "A CALENDAR OF COLOUR"
Whether it’s shrubs, bulbs, gardens, Euphorbias or plenty of herbaceous perennials, this talk has a wide array of plants covering every colour in the rainbow and more. This wonderfully colourful talk is a great antidote to the drab months of winter but is relevant in any month of the year.
www.donseuphorbias.webador.co.uk
Photo Euphorbia griffithii 'Dixter Flame' in Don's Garden
Mar 10th ALISON LEVEY "THE BLACKBERRY GARDEN FROM FIRST THOUGHTS TO PRESENT DAY" & AGM 7:15pm start
Alison is an HPS Nottingham Group member and Garden Media Guild’s 'Blog of the Year' winner in 2019. Her talk, about her own garden promises to be as interesting as those garden blogs. blackberrygarden.co.uk
Apr 14th JANETTE MERILION "DROUGHT RESISTANT PLANTS"
Janette Merilion is a well known international horticultural speaker, lecturer and historian with a successful garden design business based in central Lincolnshire.
With the effects of global warming, our gardens seem to be drier and hotter, these plants are built to cope with such conditions and we'll look at the methods they use to do it.
Photo of Tulbaghia 'Elaine Anne' in our Botanic Garden, very happy in the heat and drought
